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Show HIRE WOMEN AS C0NDUCTURS Between 2,500 and 3,000 Now Em i ployed on Trolley Cars of Erlln Take Placs of Soluierjf. The art of "conducting" a street car through the crowded thoroughfares of Berlin Is being taught to women In Ave "schools for conductresses," which graduate each week a total of between 300 and 400 female conductors to take the place of men gone to the war. Not since the earliest days of the electric car in Berlin have candidates for the positions on the back platform proved so apt as the women, who once were considered vnfit for such masculine mascu-line work. Between 2,500 and 3,000 women are now employed as conductors, conduc-tors, and incidentally everyone who has applied passed the preliminary ex-amination. ex-amination. A large percentage, however, how-ever, have been unable to stand the strain and have had to seek other work. Tho women are given a theoretical course of thr-ee days, eight hours a day. In one of the five schools, and then, for their practical training, are accompanied on genuine trips by experienced ex-perienced conductors, learn the names of streets and have a chance to put their theoretical training into use. |