Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 21, 1893, Page 16

o —— X THE_OMAMA DAILY BEE: SUMDAY, MAY 21, 1893—TWENTY PAGES. THE WORK OF NIMBLE FINGERS An Amy of Typewriters Who Make a Living in New York, TWO-THIRDS OF THEM ARE WOMEN Well Pald When Competent, at Most of Them Are More Anxions to Marry Than to Become Experts—Wa; Trials and Triomphs, ““When a man comes in here with a 50- sent job,” said the pretty typewriter to a New York Herald reporter, “and be- @ins bisiness with some remark about my pretty eyes I charge him 75 cents,” She gave a vicious dab at the key- board and tossed her head toward the door through which her late customer had just departed. Her eyes were un- deniably bright and darkly beautiful; her hair a dead brown—so dark it was almost black and so fine it scemed an orderly mass of cobweb. **No wonder a woman in business for herself doesn't care to marry,” she con- tinued. “Men are such fools! Now there's a man who never saw me before ~a& man who appears to be a gentleman =who comes in my office—a public office —right before my assistants and talks about my hair and eyes! Resent it? No; what's the use? I've grown callous. It used to make me angry; now I take their work aud compliments and laugh at them, But supposing that man would g0 into the office of a malestenographer and sit down and say: ‘How bright and fresh you look this morning! I have a small job here, if you can do it right away. Now, please don’'t look cross be- cause there isn’t more money in it. By the by, excuse me, but did anybody ever tell you what lovely eyes you have? What! The last fool who was in here said so? Isn't 75 cents pretty steep for such a letter? Good morning! *‘Now that is exactly what I had a mo- ment ago—only more of it. Because I'm 8 woman I must go through the world treated like a fool and meekly accepting the position! No, I'm not particularly sensitive about it—1I get fun out of it oc- casionally at the expense of my tor- mentors. But think of the interference with business!” she added, with such a matter of fact naivete that I laughed more than the occasion would seem to warrant. This young lady is one of three sisters, all stenographers and typewriters and all engaged in independent business for themselves. They have three offices, employ about a dozen girls and live to- ether. They do all kinds of work— egal, literary, dramatic, French, Span- ish, etc. They conduct their business as a partnership, share and share alike, and transact an enormous amount of it. hey furnish stenographers by the weck, ay, hour or job—day or evening. One of the sisters is the most expert and rapid typewriter I ever saw. In fact. until 1 saw her I would have been loath to believe that the manipulation of the machine could be brought to such a high state of perfection. An Army of Typewriters. From information obtained of the dif- ferent typewriting machine firms it is estimated that about 18,000 persons are empln&'cd as operators of machines in New York city alone. From 23,000 to 25,000 machines are out of this city, Of these several thousand are necessarily idle all of the time. It is probable, how- gver, that atleast 18,000 machines ave in active use, Think of this army of operators going to work every day "at the keyboard, if you would be reminded of the vast vol- ume of business transacted in the offices of the metropolis. Two-thirdg of this army are women, The extraordinary influx of women in all the avenues of commerecial life of recent years is particularly marked in this calling, The fact isowing to the surs lus of educated women thrown upon heir own resources and to the peculiar adaptability of women as amanuenses. ‘Women learn stenography and the manipulation of the machine quicl &nd are more tractable as office assis ants than men, They can afford to work for Jess money than men. In working for less money than men they are still able to make more money in “proportion to the labor performed than they could et in other walks of life open to them. cosy office and a typewriting machine are more congenial to the female mind than a kitchen, the factory, the counter or even teaching. And there is more money in it than in any of these other pmployments. There Ys room for steady Advancement for the ambitious and capable woman, ‘There are women in New York getting from $20 to #25 and 830, and cyven as high as $40 a weck as stenographers and typewritors, They @are worth it, too, Of course, when we get above $25 o week the number grows rapidly smaller, but they do make more in several in- stances. Tell me, if you please, in what other line of business women can obtain higher salaries. I have noticed thatin any u{‘ling where a woman becomes espec- fally expert the question of sex disappears @nd she commands for her services what- ‘eyer a man would get under the same circumstances. If sex has anything atall 1o do with it, the difference is to her ad- Vvantage. The great drawback to the ad- vancement of women in this line of Jabor, as it is in other fields, is incom- tency. Few women care to excel, 0st women look upon this employment @s but temporary, and do not cnnsi(lel' it worth while to do any be than is ghmanm' y to make a living, is is the Llel difference between men and women stenographers, And this difference shows in the respective salaries paid. "Efficient male stenographers get from 5. to 825 per week. First class male . Menographers get from $1,500 to $1,800 and up to #2,500 per year, The average ?llry paid male stenographers in New ork is $14 per week. Slill Well Remunerated. The average salary paid female stenog- Taphers here is 811 per woek., A large #and competent class of women got from B15 to 818 per week. This class would Rot be able to take testimony in court or report. speeches verbatim, but they are ofl&ient or office work. l\fnny of them combine a technical knowledge of the business ofotheir employers with their urv(ceuuu -fmrnuulns;u. Skill in :ho ration of legal forms, preparing mvfiloflflom for ‘lrchlmcu or special ility in literary or medical nomenclature or something else—all render the woman more or less valu- ible in addition to her stenographic art. of them who carn #25 10 $30 per ‘week are usually valuable for such quali- &. Any woman lnwllifccnt enough’ to e in any particular line of business & stenographer and who is handling E.‘.h&u”oomernlng the details of that every day ought to be able to the whole thing within a limited e. It is alone the feeling of indiffer- and the supposed temporary char- r of the work that prevents. "If the and oxm\uuun of finding some- 10 main! her without labor were sompletely abandoned there would be Wothing 10 prevent & woman getting as h & salary as a man, everything olve ing ual. As it fa, and probably ever will be, the great majority of these 12,000 women who work in the New York offices get but from #7 to $10 per week., Counting those in Jersey City and Brooklyn thore are twenty-seven schools, turning out about 1,000 steno- graphic and typewriting students upon he public every year. The women who merely operate the machine and make no pretensions to the stenographic art are so few that they ave scarcely worth mentioning. They are (lullu as scarce as good stenographers. The latter are of necessity compelled to combine type- writing with shorthand, These are often 50 expert with the machine that for ordinary business correspondence they take dictation directly on the ma- chine without resorting to stenography. The dealers in typewriting machines constitute themselves agents for the placing of applicants for positions, keep- ng a register of those who use their machines, Those who apply to them are examined as to fitness and graded as to salary they are able to earn and what they want. ‘A single firm placed 400 beginners during tfio past year. At the same time this firm regis d 1,999 applicants, 633 of whom were males. Of the whole number applying 1,387 were furnished permanent positions. Tem- porary places were obtained for 1,260, These figures indicate that many of the ul) licants came back again and again, either because they were unsatisfactory to the employers or because they were dissatisfidd with their places. I am told that out of the whole twenty- seven schools there are but three whose graduated pupils can be accepted with any assurance of being what they pre- tend to be. These three will not take pupils in stenography unless they can first pass a satisfactory examination in general information, the construction of the English language and spelling. Of course some of this kind of pupils get into the other schools and _come out all right. TI\(\K come out all right even when they buy text books and teach themselves, The 12,000 women of New York who spread themselves over the city every morning save on holidays and Sundays are driven by necessity to earning their own living. “They comprise as great a variety of the sex as can be found in any walk of life, As a class they are good, intelligent, industrious and fairly well educated. In many cases they are cultured and refined ladies who were born to better things. The instances where they are not quite as good as they might be are not more numerous in pro- portion to the whole number than among an equal number of women in other walks of business life. There are a good many silly young women from the stenographic schools who regard the businessas a sort of a picnic—a romantic road to matrimony. Ways and Habits, “There are i;onng women,” said an agent, ‘‘who will never stay in a situa- tion long unless they think there is an opening there for a matrimonial connec- tion. They sail around from place to place on the lookout for a wealthy ‘mash.” And first rate marriages have been contracted between lady stenog- raphers and their employers, or some- body with whom the amanuensis comes in contret in the course of business. I am bound to say, however, these matri- monial apples do not fall often and nover tomy knowledge into the lap of this ‘silly billy’ sort-of a girl.” One of the most fruitful sources of friction between the female stenographer and her employer is the apparent inabil- ity of many women to separate their i)g‘rsoxmlity from their business. If the hoss gets ‘‘rattled” and speaks sharply it isreceived in the light of a personal insult. The man of big affairs has no time to waste upon preliminaries and is frequently abrupt of speech. Some women never get accustomed to this— and some get right up and go and hunt another job. They are looking for somebody who will treat them as if they the “lady of the nouse.” As most business men have to meetithat kind of a man as soon as they get home it is very naturally likely to pall upon the taste. Any observant visitor to the lower town can see hundreds of female type- writers rushing around about the lunch hour and a glance into any of the cheap dining roomws of Fulton street or neat subcellavs 'of Broad or Nassau, between 12and 1 o'clock, will disclose them by scores. Most of them bring luncheon to the office, but even these gladly seize upon that half an hour's liberty to take the air and indulge in gossip with some friend. - You can see these young ladies with their arms around” each other, sauntering along lower Broadway in the ecrowd, just ag school girls are seen walking about the grounds of a female academy. They are as much at home beneath the shadows of Trinit and amid the rush of that financial cul- de-sac of Wall street and the roar of Broadway as if they were gathering autumn fcn\'cs in a back yard or moon- ing their little secrets among the vine- clad mounds of some silent cemetery, These are the younger sort, the romance of whose lives is not yet of the past. They are not adverse to the observation of good looking young men, though as a rule their constant contact with the op- posite sex in business life has made them ndifferent, if not cynical, on this head. The Better Sort, But there are women down here to whom life is a mor ious thing. They are the support of children and brothers and sisters and aged parents and invalid husbands—women of culture andsocial refinement, who would no more be caught loafing on Broadway and amusing them- selves among the crowd than they would be caught stealing, They carry with them everywhere the gentle dignity of pure womanhood and their faces bear the soulfulness of intellectual life, Thege are the women who are not unfrequently lifted from the position of amanuensis to dictator of. the domestic fortunes of their former employer. But whether they reach that social elevation or not, no title an employer could confer would add to their real worth, Wherever they ave employed they bring with them an unmistakable air of refinement, and all who are brought within the range of business contact with them arve imper- ceptibly drawn under their gentle in. fluence. There are inner business of- fices in New York that are more like drawing rooms than like the generally accepted place for the transaction of business. The quiet supremacy of feminine taste and culture permeates every department of the oftice, It is not only visible in the boudoirlike sanctum, but it is to be felt in the politeness of the low voiced clerks, and even noted in the demeanor of the customers around the outside ticker, There is no escape from the conclusion that whatever the typewriting machine has done for women=-and it has ungues- tlonably done much—it has practically revolutionized the general "conduct of business and materially improved the conduct of men. —_— In a certain Oregon fishcanning establish- ment there was recently & superintendent, who may be called Smith, whose loud pro’ fessions of religion were not exactly in ac- cordance with his life. 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Open Monday and e Saturday Evenings only, WARRING FOR THE GROUND Interesting Controversy Between Schields and Horbach Now in Progress, SOME PECULIAR TRANSACTIONS AIRED Detalls of n Land Deal that Began Away Buck In 1803 and Is Not Yet Ended—Somebody s Much n the Wrong, The Horbach-Schields row over the posses sion of the circus property on North Twen- tieth street still continues, with each side hanging on to a part of the land in con- troversy and trying to get hold of the “re- mainder. In looking up the story of the diffculty, it was found that it dated back nearly a generation, The following states ment of it was made by J. P. Breen, who is Schields"iattorney in the case, as it now ap- pears in the district court, ““This litigation dates back to 1868, when Omala wasa mere village, and when the land now in controversy was wild prairie, Louis Schields was at that time engaged in manufacturing brick at various points in the village of Offaha, and also engaged in building houses. John A. Horbach was at that time in active business here doing some building, and he formed the acquaint- ance of Schields, and they transacted con- siderable business with each other, in the line of purchasing building material and erecting buildings, *In 1864 Mr, Horbach sola the land now in controversy to Schields for $1,600, and gave him a written contract of purchase. Schielas moved upon the land in the spring of that year, and erected a dwelling house upon it, Schields oo%mnued to do a gredt deal of work for Mr. Horbach, under an agreement thgt his work and material furnished should be applied upon the purchase price of this lwd. He built Mr. Horbach's present &chenu at the cornér of Seventeenth and 1o streets, and never succeeded in ob ining @ Tull settlewent foF tho material #hich he furnished and the 'abor which he performed upon the house, but has all along claimed that he performed enough labor and fur- nished enough material upon that house, for which he has never been paid, to pay off the entire purchase price of the land, The pa- pers on file in the series of suits over this land allege that about ten years after Schields moved upon the property under his contract of purchase, Mr. Horbach, while Schields was intoxicated, got his contract of purchase away from him and gave him in lieu of it alease for the premises, and that the following day, when Schields recovered from his drumken stupor, his friends told him that Horbach had swindled him and that he should ‘g0 back and get a new con- tract, or some paper recognizing his title in the land, This he did, and Horbach gave him a paper purporting to give him the same protection amd title that his old contract se- cured him, but instead ot being an absolute contract of saleit proved to be an option to buy within & eertain time. Schields, who is a foreigner and illiterate and unable to read written English, did not kuow but that he had a pew comtract, but thereaiter, finding that it wes an option, he agamn charged Hombach with baa faith, and thereupon Mr. Horbach told him to pay up a small balance which he claimed was yet due upon thesold contract, and he would make hun adeed. Relying upon this verbal arrangement to carry out the provisions of the old conuraot of 1864, Schields paid him in small installments about $1,000 more from 15874 up to 1880, and then stopped and wanted a deed. Horbach daclnre& that he would not give him a deed and told him that he did not own the land, and that all he had been paying in the years past was rent for the premises, Soon after the above declaration open hostilities between the parties com- menced and Horbach tried to get physical ssession of the land, In 1 or 1887 schields commenced an action for specific performance of his contract ana asked the gourt to give him a deed. That suit was de- cided in favor of Mr. Horbach, but Schields appealed to the supreme court and that court reversed the decision and awarded the land to Schields. A motion for a new trial filed and the supreme court reversed it- é”. and again awarded thelaud to Horbach. ew dificulties mot Mr. Horbach upon get- !ln: F;lk from the supreme court, or 6 found tg& he would then have to bring ejectifidnt n:’hv against Schields to put him off the land, "He com- ronoed his ejectment p ings in 1890-91 ut he here encountered W questions and titles in Schields and his family. Mr: felds, who was not a party to the su. preme court litigation, now intervened, and claimed a right to relitigate all the points litigated by the supreme court, and Schields himself set up a new title to the land by ad- verse russcasiun for more than ten years Upon these issucs the title is now being litigated in the district court of this county. r\]“lw('ently Mr. Horbach concelved the idea that the process of the court in giving him possession wus too slow, and that he wonld take possession by strategy, so he adopted the peculiar policy of 'using the po- lice forco to aid him in taking possession, and induced certain police ofticers to notify the tenants of Mr. Schields resid- ingon the land to clean upthe premises within twenty-four hours under the penalty of arvest, and to ‘remove from the remises within three days. This notice was served upon the oc- cuvants of the premises under Mr. Schields, but instead of removing they tuined the notice overto me, and I asked an explanation from the chief of police concerning the peculiar phraseology of the notice, and what was meant by ordering people to clean up and move off the premises.’ suggested that I could pot find any grant of power in the city vhnrtel'ludxhu; in the police depart- ment the right to give forcible entry and de- tention notices, or to try titles to iand, and intimated to the police” department that it was being used by Mr. Horbach and his agents along improper lines of conduct. This put an end to the giving of notices of this character, but having failed on this score Mr. Horbach set his ingenuity at work to discover another plan of getting the Schields tenants off, or getting himself installed in possession, so last Monday he attempted a coup by appearing on the ground with 'a ozén or more men and energetically at- tempting to inclose the premises with a high board fence, fencing in the Schields tenants and likewise (encfnn them out, for some of passed out could not get b would Schields over to Horbach, and approached some of them with an offer his fellow warrior, Vietor Lantry, who per- sistently and far into the nigh the Schiolds tenants to accept Horbach's lucre and take the lease from him, and to vacate the premises under Schields’ le: but any Schields’ tenants and they stoutly refused, ; k unless thoy turn their leasohold intercst from of money through it pleaded with 0 e, did upon money effect not the seem to b manhood of #On May 16 Mr. Horbach was again aidea by the police and an oficer was detailed to sit upon some logs upon the nortl of the premiscs, but his stay was by another With another restraining order from the dis- trict court in commanding all person ferring in any manner w of Louis Schiclds and his portion of tho Schields premises, Least corner t short appearance of the riff, armed broader and bolder terms, desist from inter- tho possession enants over any It now looked as though a conflict was imminent between the sheriff's for es and the police powers, but good senso prevailed and the police withdrew, ana again in the unrestricted possession of the property, whereupon he fence down, and Lis tenants passed in and out of the premises unmolestod, bach, seemed to be an effectivo weapon of warfare, sought, Schields and myself arvested for threats to demolisn property, Mr. Barnum, and by himself, applied to the police court to haye Mr. mcarcerated and bound over to keep the peuce, but his requests at the police q;lmrlern were t Mr. Schields was loft again knocked the Mr. Hor- finding the injunction writ thut the police powers to have Mr. and through nis agent, Schields and myself head- refused, and he was told that e sheriff and Lis force seemed to have pos scssion up there, would be made with the district court and its orders, and that no interference the tenants whose teams were outside dur- ing the day on returning in the evening found their avenue of ngress cut off, But bout this time Schields, through his , appeared upon the scene with the sheriff, ded by & restraining order, and under in- structions from me Mr. Schields knocked down the greater portion of the new fence, “But the end was not yet, for that same night Mr. Horbach's force, who still roosted on some logs on the premises, rencwed the warfare, and nailed “i’ the fence nquin, and in the moruing of the 16th Schields tenauts were again confronted with the fence. This time their teams were on the inside, but thrdugh the courtesy of Mr. Horbach and his agents were allowed to taks the working teams out through a gate zhwh‘he had cou- structed Iu" the .Ml’euce. ll nlwdlfgle{ -"eu: their de) ure rely log! e ga .fl lo*u ¢ teaants t R such teams as had “Nothing daunted, however, Mr, Horbach applied to the mayor for special police protection from Mr. Schields and his counsel, andrequested that the fire and police com. missioners be called together, and that he he given a special police guard against Mr, Schields’ and Mr. Breen's depredations ou the FroperLyA At this critical moment a re- straining order from the district court was served upon the mayor aud the fire and police commissioners, and the plan of gettin & special police guard was nipped in the bud: Finally Mr. Horbach turned to his enemy’s weapon, the district feourt and restraining order, and yesterday went into the restrain- Il:sorder business himself. He secured an order restraining Schields and his agents and attorneys from committing any tres- passes upon the land, but this order was rater late to be of much effect, because the fence was already down, and Schields and his tenanks in the unrestricted possession of the property. The fight promises to be - bitter and a long one,” i e O T INDUSTRIAL NOIES, The wages of certain British coal mine 3 are said 1o have be since Novembe the low price of coal, In 1802 th 1,758 st of New York of which 1, successful, but the loss of persons striking is_said moro t is to nave been n was gainéd by str d steol wor fay satisfac! work is veing done by nonunjod men, It has been discovered that numerous de« uent and expellod members of techmen's Mutu i their receipt books with forg 'y's signatures to establish thi claim 10 good standing, warned the lodges to be on their gugrd against such decepcion. The deadening nature of debt has bee: shown time and again in the coal regions u} eastern Pennsylvania, where a miner some- times works for ten yeurs without receivin any cash payment, because some disgste has brought him in debv to the comban, L Muine owner and miner share th al risks of mining, and it sometimes happens that an accident will place beyons the miner's reach thousands of tons of ccu which he has cut with mouths of labor, bus for which he could not draw full pay unti it had been delivered at the breke hile he thus busied he lived upor the company's store, and the disaster him dm-dy in debt. I'he effect upon 135¢ per cen{] 1891, mainly on account of} Pl sges 10 the 25, 704) that unyl the 1 Aid association have People’s Mammoth Installment House 1381513817 Farnam Street /] { The ofcials have | men has been to make them utterly indifter< § ent to their future, and at least one ming owner, recognizing the evil results of suchl conditions, makes it a rule to discharge & miner who is hopelessly in debt. The d charge clears his score, and many men thus | relieved of their burdens depart from the | coal regions with their little belonglnna R begin anew elsewhere, armed with the ¢o age thut hope alone can give. eeei— Busy people have no tune, and :enzb people have no inclination to use pills make them sick a day for every dose th take. 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