The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-10

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Some Of the best paid employ ss CT

Some Of the best paid 5elnp1oys e. CT
5ar:. Eosss-z,nlent are women 50 Tar Tar
as wages are concerned Uncle sam
recognizes no distinction of sex, and
i, some branches OF the public ser
1-ice persons IN petlcoatss owing TO
their superior aptitude for certain
Kinds OF work-sucfi. for exa1nple,Has
the counting OF noney--haye eaEireIS
driven cut the men, who are unabie
to compete with them.
The highest salary paid BY the GOV,
eminent 10 woman is drawn os
Miss EsteIie Reel. who is sUperin-
taudcnt of all the Indian schools. says
the Columbus Dispatch. She Is quite
p remarkable person. and the super
Vision which she exercises over the
rising generation of the Nation 5
wards has already revolutioniZed to a
great extent the system OF manage
,1lent adopted. She gets $4,000 a year.
plus her expenses. the latter being
a considerable item, inasmuch as she
spends early all of her time in rrav-
cling about from enc school to an
other.
The most remarkable position heic
by any woman under the govern ent
is occupied by Miss Clara Graecen.
Who is the law clerk OF the Treasury
at Washington. A mere girl, sl1Sht
of figure, with fluffy blonde hair one
would never imagine that she could De
an expert writer Of legal opinions icT
one of the executive departments.
Yet such is her business. and she OBJ
tanned her place purely through merst
and superior ability. 1t pays $1,000
year, and is the only position Of the
kind under the government that was
ever held by q woman Miss Graecen
came from E,a!kasha, Mich" eight
years ago.
Miss Margaret NJ. Hanna is the only
woman in Uncle Sans employ who
does diplomatic work. Her business
is the handling, at the Department OF
State in Washington. of correspon-
dence which relates to diplomatic al
fairs. Though still in her twenties,
she has occupied this position ever
since 1896. Her salary is S1.sob a
wear. Miss Hanna is very pretty.
Ann Artor. Nich., claims her as her
birthplace.
The highest pay given to any wo-
man in the Postotice Department is
s1,ScO. T,c,s amount is drawn by Mrs.
Emma Watkins, who is an expert ID
accounts. She handles the accounts
of all the postmasters in our outlying
possessions, including Porto Rico,
Hawaii, Guam and Samoa. To these
are added the postofhces in Alaska
and also those in the Windward
Islands.
Mrs. Emma Sheridan, like Mrs
Watkins, widow, writes treatises for
the Department Of state. 1t is quite
rena rilahIe work for 4 woman to do;
but she is a born linsuist, and. as she
herself says spoke three languages
from babyh ood-English 10 her faith
err. italian to her mother and French
TO other people. Her n1othe, was an
Italian. and her father half Italian
and nall English. She was born in
Siena, Italy. ana was educated in
Paris
Another notable woman in the gov
erIl11ent employ is Miss Marie Mac
Nauellton who, in a competitive exam
iration five years ago, secured q S2,4uo
place i'll the Bureau of American Re
publics Hardly more than a girl she
is slender dark and very pretty. Her
work consists in translar ting English
born in Grand Rapids, Mich. and was
educated In Paris