The morning times., 1895-08-11
MISS KELLY, P. S., BLUSHES
Roosevelt's Girl Secretary.
Not a New Woman.
AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS
Desirable Profession For
Young Women-Suc-
cesses Made.
AT POLICE HEADQUARTERS

New honor was thrust on woman when
Miss Minnie Gertrude Kelly was Installed
by the president OF the board OF police com
nissloners, Theodore Roose Welt, as his
private secretary.
Miss Kelly is the first member of her sex
to hold any position at police headquarte
The members of the former police board,
ruled by Tanmany, would as soon have
posted their business on bulletin board
outside the marble door of police headquar-
ters as have Installed a woman in any posi-
ton, much less one OF such confidence as
a private secretaryship, where their secrets
must have been known.
The looks OF amaZement on the faces OF
some OF the former visitors to the police
commissioners offices, where a sweet
faced girl in black is now found running
the office In Commissioner Roo seyeit's alb
sence, re worth seeing. Miss Kelly is
pretty, with sparkling black eyes, an es-
pecjatly rosy mouth, ratheF large and indi-
eating ability, but with corners well drawn
in denOting tendency to mind ones own
| business and diyulge nothing. She has
black hair, parted in Madonna fashion,
| and waved down 70 the ears. And she
| bushes. The rich blood comes and goes
| in great waves of crimson whenever she is
spoken TO III spite OF the fact that she is
quite dignified and sef-contained and un-
| derstands her position fully. A Wag said
when he saw this phenomenon that those
| were the first bushes police headquarters
| had ever known.
Mis- Keliy's selection by Mr. Roose-
| welt draws attent ion TO the fact that
women are especially fitted to hold posi-
| tious as private secretary where diScre-
| ton, tact and an absolute fidelity and
secrc tivcness is imperative.
| 1t is within a few years that this idea
| has taken hold Of both men aud women OF
| prominence, aud the records made by
| their women secretaries are clean aud
/ unusually good without exception. Mrs.
/ John Logan has had a girl secretary,
| Miss Edith Marshall, siuce her hushand's
| death, and Mrs. Logan, S every Que
| knows, ha IS a most yoluminous CORE
| spondence beside many business and chari-
table affairs in hand. Miss Marshall
| even has entire charge OF Mrs. Loeau's
! bank books in her employers absence
! from Washington.
! Mrs Potter Palmers' right hand dur
| ing the prepa parations for the fair was
| lovely young girl whose tact and efficiency
! thousands Of people all over the world
/ came to know
| Miss Sanger, whom President Harri-
! son placed in the White HHouse, never
showed anything but the closest fidelity
to The trust placed in her, and although
cultivated assiduously by newspaper pco-
pie, not one of the cutire Washington
force was ever able to secure any news
through her
1t IS this sort OF faithfuIness that is
likely ito make au increasing demand for
discreet young women of good judgment
and business training in such positions.
Miss Kelly is the fourth woman to hold
/ a private secretaryship Of impor tance
in New York's city government. one
is now in the position and has proved to
have an executive ability that not Que man
in SEQ has.
Miss Kelly's is quite the most important
private secretaryship yet filled by a woman.
It IS all the more important because she
is ouly 10 years Old tile youngest woman
by far who has ever been given such re-
spousibility.
Miss Kelly is a New York girl, grad
uate Of the nnblc schools and not the least