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FROM NtW YORK.Women on the New York Papers—Uirl Reporters—111 PaidEngineers.How About a Parcels Pest?—HenryGeorge as a Landowner-NotesHere and There.Special Correspondence of the Dubuque Herald.New Yohk, Aug 1.—Few persons know the truth about the position of women in New York journalism. It is easily told. Women seldom succeed in all round re- j porting; even more rarely in editorial writing, and practically never in important executive work. Most of those whowin fame and a comfortable living do it either through sensational work of onekind or another, or through specialties. The young woman who calls herselfNellie Biy, came to this town two or threeyears ago after earning a local reputation by work done for a Pittsburg paper. Her English was distinctly bad, but she was pretty, clever and courageous. She was honestly anxious to make her bread by legitimate newspaper work; and “copy readers,” with the £Ood nature character istic of newspaper man, shaped up her “copy” and sent it to the printer. This, however, could not havegone on forever, and it was only a question of time when she should have been driven to give up her plucky experiment, but for her startling exploit in exposing abuses in an insane asylum. The outcome of that venture established her in journalism, and sheas now a conspicuous success. Another case with some of thesame elements, is that of “Bab,” a bright and courageous little widow, who earnedher bread for a time as a writer for a fashion publication distributed free by a well known concern in this city. Pres eently she took to writing newspaper articles, made up in the main of gossip and touch and-go comment on currents events. Her cleverest things often bordered on the scandalous, but she was seldom dull. From writing for the Star she got into the “syndicates.” and her matter \
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Dubuque Sunday Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Sun, Aug 04, 1889
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