Show II Woman eans Str ts Mrs Emmagene Paul is Known as the Colonel Waring of II Chicago A Rosy Day Laborer Chicago March Macch 9 airs Irs A Emma Paul Paol superintendent of the Sec See ml rJ Ware street cleaning may well weIl be bec c tiled the Colonel Waring of Chicago As A th first fi woman in the world to en enK ena K gaz a I in m th the work of street cleaning fr u the practical side aide and the only w ii man m up jp to date to have lve occupied the thel l i jn in n w which she he today holds th t there ere 11 ii n 11 mII I than a novel interest in noting Mrs Paul Pauls s evolution from a frail inen i melancholy reserved invalid t th robust capable fear 1 J i iture which she is today i j ar ai ab at ut the streets of Chicago from ni until night ni bt or from night un 1 a 8 the ease case may be over overt t ing smi gings s of workmen F Freet leet i pairs eschewing e politics in the ther r nM Th at st politic befriending the v and hi hii family strong li h 1 lest courageous cou tOu and kind a 8 living f o in her particular sphere of H t Ruskin Ru kin gospel of joy in work and t beauty of labor laborI T I years ago according to Mrs I IlI ul ni she he was waa 1 exactly the type of tan raM that constituted the despair of 1 t V violent V nt woman oman suffragist She had f t I as to the position or ad adi adl i l t of woman was waa interested in t r ie movement t she abe was not even a i er of or any club and aDd had bad no wish j i when occasionally occa tonally asked to do hint to help belp on the cause of ot ofa i 1 In n a she he might put pat her hand in K ic h i to please a friend but she he r thought very little of the the tSie cause causes Q s 9 for taking any active part in II i tt rs rJ outside of her home her re I T y Y ways ays was My work is right light h 1 i I e all that I can do at ats J i s xi h was not tt however without her p it na milt hilt but they were ere all centered n Iii nl son for whom she ehe thought T rk rv studied traveled lived From hoO n fl t I moment mome t 01 oil his hie exir exiE she shet t i t ted t her elf to the single great 1 r n making him the finest possible b roO A human being But Just as liS 1 I m 11 to th the reap beautiful har bar barz I t c her z malignant iL ne M a d before she fully real i t j t h her r son see was ill he was Wag gone r n T Mowed six yrs years of hopeless H n I y combined with failure of or until she was as reduced to the then p it I n fl of a chronic nervous v Anemic iI i that her body seemed l Completely lost Jost the power to toed 1 ed fd j blood lr Pr i in her bier usually lifeless mood il k ii 1 up p th the daily dally paper r and her hert hern t n e l to light ll ht upon a little Uttie edi SW in n reference to a w woman oman who ho t al an suffered but who had risen HT b r h r r grief and was Wa her hen her hers i 80 s a d bi tu to t humanity i aph n in the th si it d i OJ jf i ie e article a at 1 Mrs 11 Paul to tu v resolve r lve I t tl her moth r i raise me into the thet h hu t tk quietly announced her II of r Soing mg back to Chicago To her hervery nj th very idea wa was madness maIn but If illness nor influence could de debi Ch bi rs paul from her purpose and to toas toas toas as tn IJ abe he came w with ith no plan What she was gning to do but butir t ir n lor f o that some York work must be wait T her IP jn the big crowded city as 8 I lr 1 I the spring pring after the Worlds fair and It t so happened that Mrs Irs Paul went to visit a friend who was a member of the Municipal league an organization formed during the fair for the purpose of seeing Ing what power women could exert in iI the administration of civic affairs The club seemed very much alive to the generally filthy condition of the city I and to the of its laws Jaws After listening to endless ex exploitations c and discussions discussion of the subject Mrs Paul one day ventured to say my y Well ladles ladies you ou talk very well but why wh dont you OU do something Yes was the reply but how to be begin begin begin gin It was obviously necessary ary to first make terms with the mayor ma Or and end none non of the ladies had hall any an personal acquaintance with him As chance would have it Mrs Irs Paul had a friend who knew at official and it all end ended ended ended ed in her Ming ing detailed to bring the attention of Mr Mayor Ma or to a few of the things that the Municipal League wished to have done She found his honor very ery much inclined to treat the whole matter as a joke he lie however finally volunteered to go before the ladies ladles and prove to them the utter futility of their schemes He accord accordingly accordingly went but not finding them so easy to convince as he had imagined he consented to appoint an inspector from among them providing the league would second cond his choice of Mrs Paul i ifor for the office Nothing could have been more averse to Mrs rs Pauls inclinations but find finding findIng ing lag toot that her refusal would stultify any further efforts of the club she con consented consented seated to take the office for a month simply to prove that it was not only a possible but an eminently suitable po position position altion for a woman to hold She had bad no need and no desire to add tj t her income and undertook the work wo k with the sole aim of ot proving that a woman could do it She Sh was thereupon com corn commissioned to take one of the th best wards In n the city investigate its con conditions and do t she chose chore for its improvement with the equipment already appropriated Mrs Paul first firt spent several days in a 8 study of the situation and discovered what she was waa later to discover over in nearly every ward in the city that the regular in inspector Inspector inspector was given his office as a re reward reward reward ward for electioneering during political cal cat campaigns and that although drawing 1000 a year ear salary he not only onh did no work but nothing was ex expected expected expected of him in fact In most In Instances instances stances tance he tie had some other business which consumed all his time Urn The con contractors contractors tractors were in much the same situa situation tion while there was a law to the ef effect effect effect tI t the garbage cans were to be three throe times a week weel they were often led to accumulate unwholesome debris for Cor six weeks or more and the alleys even adjoining flue fine residences were an unmitigated horror an of oC offense tense fenee that smelt to heaven Mrs Paul adds by the way that supposedly fastidious women have thel peculiarities that If they the can get the th offensive thing off from their own premises It i very little lilile where it t goes whether a little lower J to down the alley or only into a neigh boring garbage can Her investigations concluded f Mrs Paul looked up the contractor who fortunately was an easygoing hearty Irishman He was infinitely amused at the novel situation and seeming to toI I think it best to humor the women in I their little HUle whims bestirred himself to I secure teams and workmen and stood by while Mrs 1115 Paul I bossed the job regarding the whole proceeding as a little windstorm that I would soon blow over The new In inv Inspector systematized the labor of oC the ward exactly as she would have done her own housecleaning thoroughly I cleansing a given area then going back each day over oyer all that had been done removing any new accumulations Even Then the men became aroused to con considerable considerable considerable enthusiasm and by the end of the month she had as spick and span a ward as any that the best managed I city could produce Such revolutionary work naturally attracted the attention of the property owners and acknowledgments acknowledgments and expressions of approval began to pour in At the end of the month however Mrs Paul insisted upon resigning her position po tIon entirely satisfied that She had proved to the authorities that street cleaning was pe peculiarly pecUliarly a womans vocation The subject had however got into her blood and all summer She slie he con her studies looking up laws and statistics and penetrating into various nooks and crannies crannie of the city to note the laws observance Her effective I months work established d her tion to such an extent that in the early autumn she was asked to give a paper upon street cleaning before the Civic Federation Fedoration or the Council of the Hun dred also organized during the Worlds fair and comprising the wealthiest and most representative men in the city Mrs Paul presented the subject with so much force and clearness and her knowledge proved so comprehensive and arid exact that the federation as a private body decided to city inspector on a good salary Her business for the next few years ears was merely to investigate and anti bring the results of or her work before this body to criticise suggest remedies and exploit abuses s of public trust Mrs Paul remained with the federation until she was asked by the city to accept the same position under the municipal government When Wh n the purpose of this office was accomplished Mrs Paul was nag offered the position of ot night of one of the wards which she accepted This necessitated her driving about the city from 8 in the evening until 4 in the morning overseeing her bel people She however lIk the work immensely and never met with any unpleasantness due to her being a woman on the contrary she encountered much chivalrous kind kindness kindness kindness ness from all sorts of night workmen Later she was made day superintend superintendent ent Her day d y is long and her routine ex exacting exacting exacting acting but Mrs Paul does her work con amore At in the morning she sees her force of men push carts and brooms bro ms safely started start d QU t for tor the day Then the pavers payers set forth from her office to take t ke up the th work of repair ing every detail of which she manages from the employing of the men to the contracting for fr materials Next she jumps into her cart end and goes over the whole ward to inspect the work and conditions generally In the afternoon comes her correspondence etc ete and wd re reporting reporting reporting porting at city hall At 8 In the evening she is again at her office to see the men oil off ot for their night duty mak ing i ng sure that all n are in working order and a nd that good feeling prevails The effect of this life to together ether gether g with the constant occupation of ofer her h er mind had an instantaneous effect upon pon u Mrs Pauls health Instead as she ehe s he says of spending whole nights waiting w only for the morning to come and a nd wondering how many more of them she s he would have to endure before being released r from the duty of living she went w ent to bed slept like a log and woke eager ager e to work eager to live Ue She is isnow isnow now n ow a perfect picture of robust health and a nd work is her joy as it was her res resurrection resurrection u Nor is the good work ended DELIA DELLA T DAVIS II |