The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-08-04
ARMY MEN PUT BAN
ON GIRL TYPISTS
Stenographers Must Keep
Out of Ferryboats' =" Re
served Quarter.
HINT OF WIVES JEALOUSY
Feminine Employees Of Governors Island
Give Officers q Dressing
Down.

NEW YORK. Aug. Whether mill
tarv rule is TO affect the social status
of civilians on Governors Island IS the
question puzzlius TWO pretty women
who are UypewriteSs5 In the office of the
New York arsenal there. With much
vigor they condemned the ways OF the
officers. That was' because the women
had been deprived recently of the privi-
lege OF riding on the upper deck of the
ferryboat General hancock. Notices
placed on their desks on last Saturday
informed them that Only officers, their
wives. and invited guestsN Of the NapO-
Icons Of the island were permitted %
enjoy the refreshing breezes on the part
Of the boat that might bet called FIRST
class"
The TWO women declined TO ride in
the cabin set aside for women. They
stood at the rear OF the boat
There are three women stenographers
in the arsenal. one is "a substitute,
placed there only temporarily, and
therefore had nothing 20 say against
the desp0tic rule Of the OfncTs But
the others furnished enough indigua-
ton They have been on the Island for
six months, and in that JimG have
thought themselves entitled 20 90 in
what part of the boat they chose
The officers are used 10 dealing with
soldiers and treating them as iff they
were mud" said the dark-haired, girl
yesterday. She added N a srill Smore
angry tone, with fists cleuched. I'd
Ike 10 see the sentry who wouI pre-
vent me going where ] wanted %. I
belong 10 "a free country at least I was
led 20 believe fl was free when 1 was
al school Now i am deprived OF the
privilege Of going ia that part Of the
boat which is for men and women who
are not any better than I am"
Object TO Military Eaughtiness.
When their names were asked the
girls refused to give them.
I'm not looking FOR notorIety." said
one girl, but i simply want TO know
whether military officers can do with
civilians as they do with soldiers. The
General Hancock is "a public boat and
the officers have not the right to pre-
vent us going 90 amy part of IL where
other persons can co.
The girls agreed the humiliation was
uHbelra1lc. What GEgcrcd them more
than anything else was the fact that
other women ~Grld walk upstairs 10 the
place reserved Tor the officers. When
Jae directors got ON the boat yesterday
afternoon they sCurued the soldier who
pointed to the lower cabin. Though the
rain poured i'm torrents the two women
stood az the stern OF the boat i'm order
that 20 might not DE said they had been
forced into the cabin.
The man they think is responsible for
the order preventing them having the
run OF the boat is Col John =. Greer.
IL ~ FH .FlHneH
q verbal dressing down" to Colonel
Greer on the day after the order was
issued. a friend OF the young woman
said.
''She told Colonel Greer that she was
5uS- as good as his daughter or any
member of his family She said the
ferry was a public ferry and that the
General Hancock was q fcTrybOdt MAIN
taiued by the United States Government
and not the private property Of the off,
GERS, not Il private yacht and that they
had no more right 10 reserve the upper
part Tor their families than had Mayor
Mcclellan TO reserve the upper deck and
cabin OF the Staten Island feTTybOats
fer his family and friends. She also
asked Colonel Greer would she have 10
90 out on the back platform Of a street
car should he or any other army officer
haT pen 10 enter the car when she was
ridi lg in New York city.
Wives Said There Was Flirting.
''The cause Of the trouble was that
the wives Of the officers objected TO the
presence of the lady stenographers be-
cause their husbands dirted with them.
And their husbands are army officers,
made gentlemen by act of Congress-
Mind YOU, ii was not young officers. but
officers OF rank that became so aInorous.
One officer issued orders directing that
men civilians be not permitted 10 go into
what has been known as the noR-smoll-
ing cabin, thus leaving that entire side
% the boat for the three lady steno-
Erdphers. When the clerks arrived this
into the other cabin, while, when the
lady steuCgraphers arrived, the soldier
stood at attention and conducted them TO
the nOn-sm0kng cabin. But alas, for
IN ardOr of the officers, so many men
We're on the one side of the boat that
The captain could not steer her, and so
some Of the men had 10 go 10 the other
side of the boat
The officers ret0rt that men clerks ride
without murmur I'm the part of the
boat set aside for soldiers. Though the
angry typeWrlters are not aware Of IL.
The same thing practically is done on
other Government boats It is not a
matter OF class but Of comfort for those
Who make their home on the island.
These Young women do not think OF
the dire results OF an on GER riding next
70 soldier said an island man. What
respect would he have for his command.
ing officer IL he heard family secrets
ana what discipline would there be
among the sOidieTs2'
But the Inundated kev-tqDnars SIM
seemed 20 think along Kipling's lines:
When 10 comes 10 a man I'm the case
They're like a row OF pins.
For the. Coionels lady and Judy O'Gradv
Are sisters under their skins"