The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-04-14
WOMAN PILOT.
Steers Her Steamboat From Gin
cinnati to Pitts
burg.

WHICH lllleu TIE Oillo iNiNSi
bank to bank, marking the usually
placid stream a Raging torrent the
steamer Greenland, from Cincinnati,
reached her dock in Pittsburg during
the recent'hood, after having encoun-
tered the Ohio in its worth swollen
condition for many years.
Standing on the bridge when the
steamer reached the dock was her
commander, Captain Greene, and
never for moment while the boat
was struggling for the very existence
of its 142 passengers,di the Captain
leave his post.
When the hawsers held the vessel
fast, and everything was safe in port
Captain Green temporarily turned
the managerial Inns over to First
Mate Shaw, returned to the cabin.
Rugged chubby, rosy-cheeked ba-
by, drank a cup of tea and had a good
cry.
1t was only natural that Captain
Greene should take solace in tears
after the trying ordeal, for Cap
tain Greene although one of the most
experienced commanders on the Ohio
River, is woman.
Proud she is. too, of the fact that
she is the only licensed river pilot in
the United States, and the only wom-
an who has commander license is /
sued by the Government, which
gives her the right to take complete
charge of boat while making a trip
and also gives her the right to the
honored title of Captain.
Down in a prettily furnished little /.
parlor in the Greenland Captain
Greene sat playing with her two
children after the trying trip, no
more like the commander of the YES
sci than any other home-loving, moth
erly woman.
And she is home-loving and moth
erly, for her home is on the boat,
and with her two youngest children
her eldest, age 6, being at school.
Captain Greene has yet to see her
thirty-ffth year.
Il suppose it seems strange to
some people, to imagine woman
as commander of a steamboat, she
said, but still it is not so remarkable
after all. Why am Ia river Captain? |
Because at first learned the bust
ness that | might be of assistance to
my husband when we did not have
as much as we have now, and, sec
ond. because it is a source of great |
pleasure to me.
when | married my husband he
was part over of little boat, was
her commander and her pilot. In
those days the commander took his
regular watch at the wheel, and so
as always accompanied my husband
on his trips, much of my time was
spent in the pilot house. /
1T was under him that | learned
the river the Ohio from Pittsburg
to Cairo and the Mississippi from
Cairo to St. Louis. With my hus-
band in the pilot house, steered
the boats for hours at time until
was perfectly conversant with every
part Of the duties of a pilot, as well
as those Of a commander
with the thought in mind that
some day my husband might be i'll,
and would be compelled to pilot the
boat myself, underwent and pass
ed the examination for a pilots
license in 1895, and a year later |
p was grantd a Commanders commits
sion by the United States Govern
ment.
my first real command was of the
steamer Argrand, which my husband
and myself had purchased. We us
ed her in the passenger trade, run
ming from Charleston, W. Va, to
Cincinnati and also to Pittsburg.
A year ago took command of the
Greenland, which we also own, and
have had change Of her ever since.
She is one Of the largest and staunch-
est boats in the trade"
Captain Mary Green is not COM
PEELED to earn her livelihood by her
work on the river, for her husband,
Captain Gorden c. Green, is one of
the most prosperous Of the Ohio