The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-27

Two more American women have
 heen added to the list of those duly
 licensed and entitled to command and
 navigate any steam vessel in any and
 all oceans on this globe. from the North
 Pole to the South. One of these Is from
 the Atlantic side of the continent, the other from the Pacific. The Eastern ship captain is Miss Jane Morgan of
 Philadelphia, the Western one Is Count
 ess Festetics de Tolma, formerly Miss Ella Haggin of San Francisco.
 Miss Jane Morgan, one of Philadel- phia's most prominent belles. handsome and highly accomplished in all society graces. obtained her license as master mariner quite recently. She had
 natural love for the sea and took far too much interest in sailing to be will ing merely to wear a jaunty, tight-fit- ting yachting costume and sit on deck and look pretty. Her father, Randall Morgan, owned a sea going yacht and
 Miss Morgan aspired to be able inde-
 pendently to sail anywhere she liked in
 1t without having to wait for some man
 of the Morgan family to so with her.
 Indeed, no man of her family is so
 fond of the water as she. When re-
 gently Randall Morgan and his sons and daughter departed for a cruise along
 the rugged and ragged coast of Nor way 1t was Miss Jane herself who com
 manded their yacht Waturas. The waturas is larger than the ships in which Columbus sailed to discover America. being 900 feet long.
 Miss Morgan Is dashing commander cautious withal, as we'll as entirely skillful in. navigation.
 Countess Ella Haggin Festetics de Tolma, possessed of a fortune. is able to entertain herself in any way she chooses and one way that pleases her is to take yachting cruises. She has commanded several ocean going yachts at one time and another,
 In France women are allowed to have certificates as navigators, and one of
 the expert and daring, not to say reck- less, yacht masters of the Paris fash ionable set is a lady of the old French nobility. This sprightly parsonage
 was one of the first to take up motor | boat racing, operating and guiding her own craft. She Is among the leading
 motor boat engineers in France, very
 fond of giving her friends good duck ing by rushing her craft into high waves. The fact that her friends do not always feel dead sure of getting | back home safe rather adds to the ex-
 citement and pleasure of a race on the French lady's motor boat. The old gentlemen of the British l Government Board of Navigation have not yet got their brains aired suff1- ciently to give a woman a license to be | ship captain. Lady Ernestine Bru- denell Bruce, one of the most noted of England's sea loving and sea going women. applied to the London Board of Trade for a certificate as yacht master. She only desired the document for pleasure purposes and in any case
 would have risked few lives except her 1 own. Besides, she had prepared her. self for and passed the most thorough and searching examination required of l candidate for the yacht masters H. | cense. yet the board solemnly denied it to her They made no bones either of the fact that 1t was because she was woman they refused They slid around the bush on the technicality that the word master" could not mean a member of the feminine sex.
 Among New York society woman several of the best known have taken
 course of instruction and passed ex- animation as nayigators of yachts. We'll known yachtswomen are Mrs. C. Oliver IseIin and Mrs. John Jacob As- tor. Mrs. Iselin accompanied her hus- band in one ~or two of the victorious
 races. for the Americas cup. Not few | fashionable women are yacht owners in their own right and spend much time cruising in many seas Mrs Ogden l Goelet is one of these. Mrs. Lucy Car negie. sister-in-law of Andrew Carne- gle, is another. They seem happier at sea than ashore and small blame to them! .# Best known of all American yachts women, however. is Miss Susan de For est Day, now Mrs. Charles T. Parker.
 Mrs. Parker obtained a number of years ago her certificate as ship master.
 studying navigation and seamanship in
 nautical school at New York. She
 was extremely apt as a pupil. Mrs