The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-01
GIRL STATION AGENTS GRIT.
Witnessed Discontinue of Foreman
Who wouldn't Take Her Advice.

From the Chicago News.
'The company was unable to keep any
enc burt woman at the station" said the
photographer. 1T was away up in the
Michigan lumber country, and a week
was the longest that a man would stay.
At last girl applied for the place, but
was told that II would not be safe to
run the risk of isolating herself In such
a wild region. But she begged for the
place, and when the superintendent had
surveyed her physical makeup two or
three times he began to weaken. She was
a raw-boned lass. nearly six feet In hight
She could reach out fully yard with her
big, muscular arms. What particularly
struck the official was a look on her face
that BODIED trouble to any one who should
attempt to interfere with her in the per-
Torrance of her duties. AS for telegraph
Ing she could pound brass like the wiz
ard Of Menlo Park himself.
I guess III be able to take care of
the place and myself, too, she said, and
she got IT,
1T wasn't long before It was developed
that that girl agent was a tartar. She
could shoot nike cowboy and spar like
a bruiser. When she landed on the Jaw
1t was a sure knockout. Besides, she could
NAo" q spine Jul Vi a Tie ana Doll I'D a
flsh-plate with the dexterity Of a man.
"one night when a storm was raging
the wires within a few miles of the wo-
mans station were blown down. The seat
of the trouble was located and the woman
was called on to wake up the section fore
man and his crew and repair to the scene
of the break and mend 1t.
There was bad feeling between her
and the section boss. He had openly ex-
pressed his opinion that a woman had no
business to be in such position, and had
referred to her as 'petticoated individ-
ual
"'Phat the divil does yez want?'' he
yelled out that night as the woman con-
tinued to pound on his door.
''She answered in tones that shook him
out of his bed and directed him to be
ready in fifteen minutes.
What was the disgust of the foreman
when. with his handcar on the track, the
girl operator climbed aboard and signified
her intention to go along. She intended
to boss the job. Pat was mad as a hornet
as he ordered his men 40 pump away, and
soon the car was grinding it's cogs at a
halr-raisng speed.
THE break in the wires was right over
big pond of water. The boss was wad-
ing in to get hold of the wires when the
woman yelled: Hi. there, my friend, be
careful not to grab both wires at the
same time; there's a hundred batteries on
1t. and you'd get knocked off your feet
THE warning had no more effect than
so much water poured on a ducks back.
The foreman, standing in water to his
boot tops, laid hold of both ends to drag
them out. Once he had a grip on them
there was no letting go. He went over
on his back. the wires sticking In his
flesh Such another swishing and slop-
ping about In the muddy pool no one ever
witnessed. His head would bob under.
and, like an elephant with his trunk in a
watering trough, he spurted the yellow
fluid out of his mouth into abe air Be
tween dives he swore like a trooper. Fin
ally one of the men got hold of a wire
and jerked II out of the foreman's hand.
The current was broken and the boss
meekly waded out.
THE girl cleverly connected the wire,
but Pat wouldn't so much as look at her.
The section men, however, joked him so
much about the antics he cut in the wa
ter that he applied for another section
and got IT,"