Show ONLY WOMAN mm SHIP K FE EPE it sackets jackets harbor nay navy aari 1 in charge of woman some bember of present I 1 keepers ee pers family HOB has been here fore since navy yard was 13 established blushed many years yeara ago women are steadily ing upon 0 n tho the occupations of men d now another position heretofore heretofore tied by b a man has gone to ono one of ti aljo 0 fairer sex BOX tho the charge and care of i government naval establishment aln ost for gotten has been turned over overto to her and for tile tho first urns time in the history 0 of tho the am american 0 ri C a n navy na vy a woman wa an has haa tho the rank of ship keeper the woman Is mrs albert I 1 ii met calfo sho she has been placed in charge chargo of 0 tho the navy yard at sac sacketts ketts ll arbor N Y on lako ontario not fur f r from tho the st lawrence and will r receive e vo a salary of a year albert II if metcalfe keeper iff tho the yard since died recently aad d III bis 8 P position was given to ills bla eldoy W do 0 the sacketts Sac ketts harbor navy I 1 yard 1 I ard s not a big establishment it c consists insist t 0 of ila an aero acro and a halt half of ground 0 on which there aro are halt half a dozen small email buildings 1 and a few guns guna used in tho the war livar of 1812 once prominent place it used to bo be a prominent i place and shortly after tho close of the tie war a ship of the line allne then thea tho the biggest typo of war craft built equivalent equi of tho the first class battleships battle ships of modern ju times was planned and tho the alding begun at iacketta sacketts Sac ketta ketts harbor th tb vessel was to have been tho the new cleans rl eans tho the work progressed scowl however and was finally abandoned abandon d but tho the hull of tho big vessel remained upon tho the stocks away back probably along in tho the or we a man named metcalfe Met calfo was appointed phlp keeper in ili ho he died an and d his son eon albert IT II succeeded him in tho the position somo some years ago all that was left of what was to have been tho the now orleans was torn down but tho the position and title of tho the keeper remained keeper for thirty eight years albert 11 II metcalfe Met Iret calfo watched tho the government belongings around sacketts Sac ketts harbor for thirty years and then deold during all the years tho the bureau of yards and docks of tho the navy department has hag regularly submitted an estimate estl mato of 30 to congress for tho the annual salary of tho the ship keeper at sacketts Sac Sat ketts ir harbor arbor and that Is probably tho the only place where the tha namo name ship keeper appears in an official way on the records |