The San Francisco call., 1913-08-03
IS OFFICE GIRL II
CROWDING OUT
The OFFICE BOY?
She's Generally There on
Time, Seldom Whistles
and Doesn't Smoke
Cigarettes
LADY BARRIERS AND
A LADY WATCHMAN
Lady Bootblacks and a Lady
House Wrecker-What
Are We Coming To?

Manv business men now favor the Of
nee girl. They say she seldom whisties.
almost never gets to the Office late ana
doesn't smoke cigarettes They aomi1
that she does lot of chattering. but
that seems to be their only fault. M
afraid us fellers will soon be In the
down and out class.
But the office boys are not the only
ones getting the hook. The femaies
are coppfng all the Jobs these days. says
the once Boy in the New York World.
Over in Brooklyn at 5 Willoughby
street there is barber shop owned and
run by a women. She's Miss Jennie
Sherwood She has four assistants who
can WELD razor just as good as any
man. Not safety razors, the. .Darktown
sort A big sign in front or the SHOP
reads: Lady BARRIERS" In gold letters
When / pushed into the shop the
lady barber in charge of No chair :
was the only one of the FIVE not busy
Just like a regular barber she yelleo:
You're nextl" 1 was little scared
when she began to sharpen up her
tools. But after cutting my wool and
shaving a few pin feathers off my chin
she got a. hot towel and washed my
face. just like mother used to. 1t was
fine.
WOMEN BARRIERS DON'T TALK
The customers like the shop because
the women do not talk as much as
some men BARRIERS. Actually another
thing-they don't paw your face with
icy hands. They look like trained
nurses in their white frocks and aprons
No, they don't decline tips. but they
don't glare at you IL they don't get
'em. They won't hurt hair in your
head-outside of cutting 1T.
After getting do1led up there hoped
a subway train, crossed the creek and
made my way to the new Pennsylvania
station in Seventh avenue and got
shine-by a woman bootblack. There
are two women in charge OF the boot
black stand. They spend most OF their
time Frightening up the shoes of the
lady passengers.
My next visit was to see whether the
night watchman--I mean watchwoman
lis still on the Job. I found Mrs. As
trid Wolfe, the only woman holding
such a job in this city, armed with a
broom handle and a police whistle
guarding the big studio apartment
building at No. II West Eighth street
which is being remode1ed. Besides
watching and chasing night providers
she is a sort of caretaker In the day
time. She Is also a suffragette. She
carried banner in the suffrage parads
last spring.
GIRL HOUSE wRECKER
Miss Helen F. Kolba was the next on
my visiting list She's the girl house
wrecker. They say she has pulled down
more than $50 houses (real housesl
since she was Is years old. and she Is
only 10 now. Her latest big job was
that on the Astor estate in Thirty-third
street near Fifth avenue, when she tore
down a row of IA story dwellings.
Miss Kolba speaks Russian. Polish.
German and Italian. She has charge of
gangs OF laborers. and can handle As or
so men just as easy as her dad, who has
been In the wrecking business for many
years.
The champion typist OF the world is a
girl. She is Miss Florence e. Wilson.
10 years old, who Is in the employ of a
typewriter concern. At the last inter-
national typewriting contest she beat
the English champion, Emil A. Trefzger,
by writing 127 net words minute. You
bet she can make typewriter talk.
WOMAN DETHCTIyE
That there's Mrs. Isabella Goodwin.
the only woman detective in the police
department She was made a first
grade sleuth for running down the
$4,000 taxtcab robbers. Her salary is
$2,250 year. She has been con-
nected with the department for nearly
16 years. serving as a matron at the
Macdougal and Mercer streets coops.
SAe IS now at ponce neduQuarLerS-
The first and only woman fire in
spector in the city is Mrs Sarah w. II.
Christopher. She got the Job Septem-
Der 10, 1912 Her rakeoff Is $1,000 per
year. She has been assigned to the
coax, suit and skirt factories in the
city. There are more than 500 such
places. In which 100000 persons, mostly
women, are employed.
Miss Elizabeth Fitzgerald Is the
matron In charge Of the immigration
service. She looks out for tho women
greenhorns. She goes on each incom-
ing steamship at quarantine and sees
that the unaccompanied women are
taken care Of.