A WOMAN WHO EARNS £5000 A YEAR

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 319, 9 January 1909, Page 4

A WOMAN WHO EARNS £SOOO A YEAR

A JIILUOXAIIiJi'S I'MVATE SECIUv TAKV AND IIJiK UESI'ONSIBIUTIE*.

11. 11. Kogcrs, tin' N'cw Vork millioi aire, is au exception among Hie grca •huuiicicrs ai having a woman for a pri 'vale secretary. Ims extremely respoi; silile pust is Idled by Miss lv. I- Harri sua, who receives lor lier service salary reported to he JIj.UOO a year. ilias ltanison Ims been (villi il llogers for several years, and iu Uia lime lias come to know all liis busiiK-s J'rieiuls ami business acquaintances When ilr lingers is out of town, as li I freuuently is, .Miss Harrison runs hi olliee. She has her stenographers, Iw I "clerks, anil her ollice-boys, who obey he as their chief. I' Even when Mrs Kogcrs is present hi time is occupied only as she has arrang !ed for it ; and it must In- a very mi usual ami extremely important piece- o business lliat can get a personal eonfei 'nice with even Miss Harrison, to «i; ■jotliiug of ilr lingers, until it lias beei duly taken up by correspondence am anal) zed and considered. Mark 'JJ.wain once said that, if he le his correspondence go unanswered Ion; enough, it no longer became aecessar; to answer it at all, and he could tiirov away large bundles of neglected letter: at a time. Perhaps this iuuttence—ill Holers and Mark Twain are fast friend, —is felt in Miss Harrison's oilicc ; ecr lain it is that many letters arrive then merely to linil oblivion. , To 'iliss Harrison falls the duty oi sewing as Sir Rogers's ollicial bulla—more than tliat, as his representative. Sin; herself has buffers, through whom it is diflicult to (.ass except by prcar-rane-eil appointment—by letter, .telephone messages are politely to be put in written form and submitted [ through the post.