WOMEN WHO EARN THOUSANDS.

Northland Age, Volume 2, Issue 41, 22 May 1906, Page 7

WOMEN WHO EARN THOUSANDS.

BECAUSE THEY KNOW lIOW TO KEEP SECRETS. Of all the qualities which hav'i worked for the feminine person’s a J vancement in business, the one tut I has put her on the highest round c* the financial ladder so far, is her ability to keep a secret. This qualification has put four women in a position to earn on an average over £2,00u a year. Miss Anna Amendt draws £2,500 a year as secretary to Mr. Gage H. Tabrell, manager of the Equitably Life Assurance, Company in New York, and makes another £2,000 a year out of perquites or commissions on policies. Miss Harrison, as secrotaryto Mr. H. H. Rogers, Air. Rockefeller’s right-hand nan and partner in the Standard Oil Company, js paid an annual salary of £2,00u, but che secrets she holds concerning Uie machinulions of the great oil trust are probably worth a good deal more and still she knows how to keep them. She has actually defied a lawcourt, which sought to make her divulge her knowledge regarding tain alleged bribes to Congressmen. Miss Helen Gould, daughter of a money-grubber, but herself a philanthropist, pays her secretary, Miss Alman, £l,(iOO a year. Another safe lady repository of secrets of vast importance is Miss Florence Rhett, who for £2,000 a year takes charge of ali the correspondence that relates to the domestic, charitable, and social side of Picrpoint Morgan’s household. She takes charge of the numerous charities which the great financier has in hand, and investigates all the begging letters which she decides are worth attention. She also attends to all domestic expenditures, even to putting her approval on anything that he buys which has an art value. Her judgement goes a long way with Mr. Morgan in such matters. In answering letters Mr. Morgan sometimes dictates a few notes and leaves the text for her to formulate. Frequently she sends out replies without his signature, and many jktsuus unknown to Mr. Morgan who have written to him have wondered who was meant by the “Per R.” which is appended under Mr. Morgan’s name. No detail as to Mr. Morgan’s charities has ever been allowed to escape to the gratification of curiosity or for any other purpose from the lips of Miss Rhett. (993.)