Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1884 — Women Cashiers. [ARTICLE]

Women Cashiers.

“Do women embezzle?” “No, they don’t. I never knew a wc» man who handled other people’? money to steal one cent. I have employed women as cashiers for years. They are quicker at making change than men; they will detect counterfeit i money quicker, they keep "their cosh accounts clearer, and don't want to run the whole store, as men do.” So said one of Buffalo’s heaviest dry goods merchants to a reporter. “Yes, they are invariably happy, I have heard of young women as clerks who had pilfered small articles—collars, handkerchiefs, etc. —blit the cases are rare. Most saleswopien and cashiers in Buffalo live at home, and keep off the streets at night. , Many belong to good families and to’ churches. are in every sense respectable. “Newspapers, nowadays are full of wicked embezzlements. Bank presidents run away with fortunes, wreck homes, families, lives, reputations, and public institutions. Cashiers gamble, steal, abscond, speculate and use money intrusted to them by poor working people. They lie, dissemble, deceive, and finally rob the directors of the corporations employing them; but women do not steal. Look at the suicides caused by all these breaches of trust! See the beggars these sleek-tongued villains have made in two cities during the past week—but women do not embezzle. “I have a cashier now who is the shrewdest woman I ever knew. She sits up there where the cash-bills roll in, evidently kept busy making change. But that young woman knows all that is going on at every counter of this large store. She catches shoplifters, reports irregularities among clerks, and detects eyery little devics invented by the salesmen to beat us or our customers. She is not a spy, or a ‘tattletale.’ The crookedness she reports among clerks would affect her if allowed to pass. She often calls me up and points out some mistake in tho cash check, saying, for instance, ‘that has occurred five times this week, Mr. is very careless.’ So you see she does not accuse him of willful mistakes in making out his checks, but I understand her and apply the proper dy“A cashier’s place is a hard one. She sits up there alone, generally; she must be quick to make change, and the knowledge that every cent lost comes out of her $8 or $9 a week naturally tends to make her nervous. She must watch for mutilated, punched, and plugged coins; and for counterfeit pieces and bad bills. The checks accompaning the cash are invariably written iu haste, are often illegible, and il she does not read the figures correctly she is liable to send back toe much change. “But you asked me if women embezzle. Never have I known a single ease ; never have I heard of one. I cannot say that of men. I have employed four young meh at different times. One left me, one was not quick enough, and the other two robbed me.”— Buffalo Ej-press. -