The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-08


lone day within year of her entering
the office. she submitted plans and speci-
fications for a new type of engine that
contained a number of new ideas and
some very decided improvements. II was
just the thing the company had been
looking for. and some of the best noun
tain passenger engines the Southern Pa
cinc ever had were built from that set
of plans.
1T was a hard shock to the gentlemen
in the Office when they saw the plum they
thought so safely their own picked by
this girl of the Sierras, and they fell TO
wondering what she would do next. She
did what they all do when the right ma n
comes along. She got married. Traded
mechanics for matrimoney. An expert
ment with the new woman was closed.
and the first lady mechanic of the land
was transformed into what she is to-day
"a very happy wife.
LAS l said, three years ago the same
road. almost the same mana gement-tor
the Southern Pacific makes very few
changes-tried another experiment, but
this time in train service. Early in 1898,
when Spanish treachery raised the cry
Remember the Mainer oliver F. Pease.
trainmaster at ella Bend, N. NJ, hoped
out and put his name on the muster roll
of the First Territorial Cavalry. Before
he left he wired in his resignation aud
turned the Office over to his wife. who be-
fore her marriage, had been telegraph
operator on the line. All her married life
she had done more or less of the clerical
work of the office, and was familiar with
every detail of it's management. Just at
the moment her husband left the road
was doing all the business 1t could handle
and help was scarce. Mrs. Pease notified
headquarters repeatedly that the office
was without head, but no attention was
paid to her communications on that sub
ject. She was told to act until her hus-
bands successor should be appointed.
Made the Big Man squirm.
"One day the superintendent OF the d.
vision dropped into ella Bend. The acting
trainmaster was. having an audience with
a big engineer who had carelessly run
through switch. The superintendent sat
a smiling spectator. while the dainty lit
tie woman made the engine man squirm
with her scathing comment on his gross
neglect, and when. at the close OF the in
terview, she told the big fellow he could
take a thirty-day vacation TO improve
his eyesight, the official was evidently
satisfied the A. T. M was onto her Job.
Before he left he told Mrs. Pease that
the general manager wes so well salts
lied with her conduct of the ONCE he had
decided to make her appointment perma-
nent.
ut was over a year after her perma-
nent appointment that l came through
ella Bend and sought the trainmaster's
office. ! entered. but almost backed out
again. ! thought ! had invaded some
ones family quarters. There was a car
pet on the floor and clean curtains at the
windows and everything was suspiciously
clean for trainmaster's once. Before
could get out. however. a neat little
woman came from behind a big desk "a
the counter and asked my business.
hesitated like a school boy. but finally
succeeded in making the lady understand
that was looking for the trainmaSter.
~ hold that position. What can DO
for your
No Job, but Got n Pass.
81 got a grip on my nerve, told her ]
was looking for work In the train service
and pulled out bunch OF letters and
my travelling card.
she looked over the letters. and then
said. They are al right. but YOU are too
old to enter our service as a nsw nan'
the age limit r. IS. I see YOU wear glasses,
SEQ. You couldn't begin 10 pass our color-