Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-11
colder AnnIvsr.arr OF n Servant.

Golden Anniversary OF n servant.
--OwN in New Jersey, a few miles
IN from New Brunswick, there is
~ to be a unique celebration to-
1870 day in honor % a servant who
Wf4EEN has been employed at the old
~ Price homestead for fifty years.
During that long stretch Of time, Mary
Grogan, the servant, has not been I'll
enough to give up her daily duties, has
taken few of the vacations allowed her,
and has never asked for a raise Of the
wages originally agreed upon-s1OO a year.
A Jewel Of a housekeeper, surely, deserv-
Ing the tribute Of affection which family
and neighbors owe.
The servant has had some remarkable
qualities which have spread her fame
throughout the countryside. The last time
she asked for a day out was twenty years
ago, when she went to New Brunswick,
eight miles away, 70 spend the day. She
has not been 20 New York since the civil
war. Then she came TO make inquiries
about one OF her children who had gone
away as a drummer boy. She went by
stage coach to New Brunswick and took
the train from there. She has never asked
for an evening out since.
The Price farm has been In the family
for more than 100 years. IT'S a good long
Tune 10 remember DdCh just now IneY got
Mary, but Mrs. Price says that she recol-
lects that there was n neighboring family
that had had Mary for two months and
were moving away, and that they recon-
mended Mary to her when she was looking
for a girl for general homework. Mary
had landed at Castle Garden In a sailing
ship with her three children, Patsy, Mary
and Bill. The voyage, she says, took forty
two days.
The Prices put Mary's three children up
at the farm and there she reared them and
helped TO rear nine little Prices, Of whom
seven are living. The first baby the Prices
had after Mary came and whom Mary used
to mother is 40 years old himself now. He
has built his own home on part Of the
farm. and Is one of those who will be at
the celebration Mary treats him and all
the Others as though they were children
yet.
The red-cheeked Irish girl who started
In to wash dishes and bake the bread in
tho Price home half a century ago is some
what bent now, and the fifty years have
frosted the Jet black hair she brought to
the farm, but even If she is IS years old
she is hale and hearty enough 70 get up
at $3.50 each morning and get the breakfast
Just as she did the first morning after she
took the place. She cooks as we'll as she
did then, and around her in the little
Kitchen are many aged implements of her
art, including one pan in which she has
baked bread for forty years. All Of her
three children have grown up and gone
away, and so have many Of the children
born on the farm, and whom she helped
to rear, but Mary has gone on cooking
and baking bread for the grandchildren
and the great-grandchildren to eat.
Cars for Women, Cars for Men.
The reservation Of rear cars for women
In the Hudson tunnel during rush hours
and the prospective adoption of the plan
In the subway are first steps in what I'M
der favorable conditions may develop into
an ultimate segregation of the sexes on
transit lines. How the open cars on
Broadway, first installed for smokers
only. were invaded by women who upheld
their right to use them is n matter of
local transit history. 1t is unlikely that
forcible measures will be necessary to
keep men out of the special women's cars.
But II is profitable, the World thinks, to
speculate on the contingencies which
might arise through an eventual dissocia-
ton Of the sexes in local transportation.
There is no doubt that women would de-
rive most benefit from the change. Men
passengers would be seriously inconveni-
enced II banished from the women's cabins
Of ferryboats. AS 1t is, the reservation
OF a single tunnel or subway car for
women reduces by one-seventh the number
OF seats men passengers can occupy to
their exclusion, and to that extent in
oreases the number Of male straphangers.
To reserve alternate surface cars for
women would distinctly augment mascu-
line discomfort unless the other cars were
reserved for men.