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S tl j 1 r I Ll C Jo I-Jo How First Fi k 0 noW w t t to toBe 0 f L Be Cli Chosen Is 1 j ose n s 1 z y d a 1 Making New r y I 1 i ye Chapters Chapters' Ay y 1 t tk k 1 I 4 7 Jv Lt t I a i 1 in the Yr y I t kc n I Q K I I i 1 s f ry 1 4 4 l N f S 1 ri ds F His History tory of Y I Oi t 1 T l a 2 i f a Sr c Womans Woman's omans s j ti rr A ti Rise ise c cf J tY 1 f r W f 1 j f r Miss Elsie Kaden First Young Woman rr 4 r Sy t I Sworn Into Railway Mail l Service r I j I dr i rr rr wF L td Y y J JI J By Ethel e l Thurston rr HIS time of change In which We wo are living living- Tins T I this time of ot pulling off old coats to put on and overturning overturning overturning over over- new ones this ones this time of ot turning up-turning turning of conditions In social Industrial economic economic economic eco eco- and n political life finds no more mo more Interesting or more moro startling expression than is shown in the Hie new activities of woman It has hns given us our first women omen street car conductors conductors con can first women mail mall carriers carriere first women elevator operators first women workers on rail rail- roads Women firsts of ot course began with Mother Eve in the original garden and we wo have found them sprinkled through history from Eden to date but but probably never before h In history have we sea seen n them springing up In greater numbers in places of ot authority and in every line of human activity than at the pre present ent time The Influence of War WarA A great man many of ot our women firsts of today are ere simply expressions of war times The call caU of ot war Is thinning out the ranks of or men and themen's tho the thomen's thomen's mens men's pla places es are being taken by br the women This has given us our firs firsts ts on the street cars In the theo o mail-carrying mail service in the elevators and so on But Ute the war was not responsible for our first congresswoman congresswoman con- con nor did it influence the people of a small email city in Florida to go to the tho polls and give America hc her first woman mayor And when In 1912 1312 Mrs Frank J J. J Shuler took the gavel gael at the Progressive e convention at Syracuse se N N Y as the first t woman to lIr preside over a political party convention con con- the war certainly had nothing to do with that Forces other than war made Dr Aurelia H. H Reinhardt the first and only woman college pres i- i Mrs Frances C C. C Axtell of the U U. S. S Em Em- Compensation Commission First Woman Employed on en Such a Federal Commission q R R y R I Kt f rr r W 4 f t r cl J r rw w I. I r t s r r G w far I I r l I t I r rI I Ec dent in the West Vest Dr Reinhardt t was a former ormer resident of ne Berkeley ele California Today Todar she has the distinction of being president of Mills College e eat at Leona Heights Oakland The war has lias how ho however ever vastly asUr influenced Influence the readjustments that have e resu resulted l d I in many recent honors to women Mrs Frances C. C Axtell of the tho United States compensation commission is the first wom woman m ever cyer named by br a n president for such a fed ted o 8 t r ry r y 3 r f s ss I 1 rl 4 y s 1 r rN N A IV Mrs Katherine Phillips Edson First Federal Industrial Mediator oral eral commission Mrs IrB Axtell Is 13 also a member of ot the committee of or w women on industry of the Council Coun Coun- cil en of National Defence Derence and belIeves belIeves' that women should do many more things than they than th they y aro are doing at present to release men for forthe the war war wari Miss Elsie Isle Kaden who is only onh 20 W years old ij 13 mentioned as the first woman In the United States to be sworn in for tor the railway mai mat 1 service Miss Kaden in passing her civil service examinations received received re re- ived ce-ived a mrk of ot 98 per cent ent the highest mark in ina ina ina a list of or SOU applicants Again we turn turn turn-to to California and find that only a little while ago Secretary of ot War Var V J-c J r rI I I J f 1 1 s fr Ise f ff f 1 y wr NT 1 Mrs Frank J J. J Shuler First Woman to Preside at Political P Party riv Convention von firm J cd ed Mrs Katherine Philips Edson of ot San Francisco industrial IndustrIa mediator for tor her liar state to act for the tho federal government as mediator In all industrial disputes dispute which may arise in III connection with government government government gov gov- contracts This is the first time that a woman has been appointed to such a position Mrs Irs Edson is also an executive officer of the industrial In in- Industrial commission of California Coming east a little we ve find the first woman deputy United States marshal In Denver Colorado Miss lIss Zola Anderson of Pueblo daughter of Secretary Secre tar tary Anderson of ot the Colorado State Federation of Labor if la is the young oung woman who has the proud dis distinction ls- ls of being the fl first t of ot her sex sel to wear the tho bad badge e of United States marshal and those who know her have havo no misgivings as to her fitness for such service Miss Andersons Anderson's work will consist chIen chiefly of or making arrests where here women aro in In- Even in Running Railroads Coming back to Washington ton D D. D C. C we find that when hen Secretary McAdoo United States director of railroads was making malting up his staff stat ho he Included In its personnel M Iles es Frances Frances' Hawthorne Brady the first woman appointed as aid to the director- director general In running the railroads of ot America New York several years cars ago was made to sit up and take notice b by the appointment of ot a n woman woman woman wom wom- an as commissioner of ot corrections but no woman had ever held office in the police pollee department above the rank of matron or probation officer until Mayor Hylan recently raised up a police lieutenant lieutenant lieuten lieuten- ant to the high office of police commissioner and the new commissioner in turn raised a probation officer to the position of deputy commissioner To Mrs Ellen A A. A OGrady who was for years ears a pro probation pro pre bation officer in the Brooklyn magistrates magistrate's court belongs the distinction of ot being the tho first woman deputy police pollee commissioner of ot New York city A few days ago a Canadian walked into the naturalization bureau in the tho New York Hall of ot Newspaper r Feature Service 1018 1015 if r t w j c t 4 y a Y Y x- x r r Yr Y r k r r tk 4 rT 4 t tV I V y yV yV V V J t r 1 h t ti r r ri i tt i A r r Miss Zola Anderson First Deputy United States Marshal Records and looking around rather hesitatingly for tor fora tora a moment approached a n charming young lady seated seated seat seat- ed cd at a desk Wheres here the thc man man man-I I w wa wan nJ to become a citizen citizen citi citI- zen zen zen zenho he ho blurted as the winsome win young oung wom woman n stood up him Im tho the man she ahe quietly responded Raise your right hand please The dazed Canadian raised his right hand ham hamand and was sworn b by the first woman to be appointed a deputy in the New York naturalization bureau Miss Frances II Muller One morning not long ago a New York recruitIng recruiting recruiting recruit- recruit Ing officer for the United States naval reserve received re- re received receIved re re- a Jolt when two fascinating S young oung women entered his 1113 office and bluntly stated that the they had come to enlist as cooks But he contended we wo I Dr A Aurelia H. H Rhin hardt of of Mills Celle College S t Oakland Ca Cal First President of a College in ID the West Wes dont don't tal take e women That doesn't make any v ference was tho calm reply of the new j dates ates It can bo ho arranged somehow And after much consulting of authorities and many doubtful stroking of chins the girls gills were accepted and became became became be be- came the first members of their sex to be enrolled In the United States naval reserve reser One of ot them Miss Helen Christene Hoerle was a scenario writer the tho other Miss Geraldine Devoy was an 1 art student Now they are engaged in Ia teachings teaching jack jacle tars how to cook cool i iA i iA A New ew York newspaper recently carrl carried d. d a it- it ittie tie the story of or an operation for the tho transfusion of k 4 blood in the tho case of a Dutch sailor Nothing extraordinary extraordinary ex ex- ex about that that nothing nothing until you ron read that the operation was as performed by uy Dr Eugenia said a d to be bo tho the first woman doctor who whoever Whoever ever e performed such an operation and the ilia doctor doctor J transfused one and a half quarts of at blood for which she paid 15 iThe i iThe The Tho first woman war correspondent is js an Eng ED English lisp lish SIr girl She Is Miss B B. B Bennett Burleigh but her y father Bennett Dennett Graham Burle Burleigh h a famous w Wa correspondent himself spent a great deal of oC time in a America merica years pars ago fought in our civil war work worked ed on an some of our newspapers made a host of ot friends friend and generally identified himself with America for far i. i several years ears Miss Burleigh went to Belgium as f 1 soon as war broke e out and has had experiences enough h in the war var ir zone to fill several books books- She l' l r ris is now visiting America decree that Miss Ii 3 3 It was b by special was allowed allowed to take a course in the Nautical al In Institute Ji tute lute 0 of VIareggio and even een after aCtor she had the required ex examinations m the Mariners' Mariners U CD refused to break its traditional policy b by admitting S Sa a woman to o its membership But her triumphed and she finally received the covet coveted masters master's license in the oceangoing ocean trade Concerning her new work work Miss Miss fI f. f I entered sea service at a troubled period wh wham I will mil attempt at- at attempt at- at each day one risks his lifo life at sea but tempt to demonstrate to my sailors that a women I am at th may mar be just as courageous as a a. man maD service of oC my mr country and her dear and Doble nobler sisters Franco France England and America J JAn the first three women to W be And Anil An b by the way given gien positions as ns elevator operators operator In a NeY York hotel are aro triplets the thc Misses Lillian Nat Marle and Leona McIntyre IY |