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Show SHE'S THE MOST SUCCESSFUL j BUSINESS GIRL IN NEW YORK I Mr r:K By LORRY A. JACOBS, N. E. A. Staff Correspondent. NEW YORK, It would seem that to have achieved the most remarkable- financial success of any woman in New York would bo to quite enough for one woman. But to have had "the loveliest time in the world" doing It and to be called one of the best dressed young woman J In New York undoubtedly adds to : that distinction. , Ten years ago Peggy Hoyt, then less than 20, had $300. She also had an Idea. She put tho idea and the 300 together and last year Poggy Hoyt, Inc., did a. business of more ( than $750,000. j roeey Hoyt Is one of the leading milliners of America. Her story, happens hap-pens to bo particularly interesting be-' be-' cause her work Is proof that a woman can do wonders If she has the cour-'nge. cour-'nge. Looks' Schoolgirl .- It . is hard to believe, when you meet Peggy that this 'slim, sweet girl has accomplished already far more than moat men In business accomplish accom-plish in a lifetime. "All of my life," she said with schoolgirllsh enthusiasm. "I havo j been living in dreams, beautiful dreams. Even now my own beauti-; beauti-; ful house seems like one of my chlld-j chlld-j ish dreams." Ten years ago Mis Hoyt was graduated gradu-ated from boarding-svchool. She went to the owner of a hat shop on 5th av. She told him that sho had been thinking hats for 10 years and wanted to sell them. "I think I could use you in tho workrooms," sail he. Starts Own Shop So to the workroom sho went. It was a stuffy, hot, messy place, but she stayed there two years. And then ishe took off the apron, took her $300 and started her own shop. I Her Idea, in short, was that hats wore made but for ono purpose to mako women more beautiful and that no matter who the woman, the right hat wo.uld make her more pleasing pleas-ing to tho. eye.' "And so," says she, "my place just grew and grew and grew with me hardly knowing It except that ij never surpped for one instant believ-iug believ-iug In my Idea that in order, to make hats successfully one has to think. I hats." - Just off of 5th av. in the middle of the 50s. is Peggy Hoyt's "place of dreams," with its marble, its expensive expen-sive draperies. Its amazing rugs, its costly oriental ornaments. It looks little liko a "business" establishment but last year it did a $750,000 business. |