Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-10-02
1RL PASSENGER AGENT
MADE GOOD WITHOUT
AID OF SEX STUFF
rroudest Moment Of Miss Lob
delrs Life Was When She
Was Told She Was a
Railroad Man"
GETS FEMININE TRADE
BY M'LIss


.you can't pull the sex stun out our
and get away with a. woman's got
!. n. a business man. " she wants to be
/. ,occess, and the proVdest moment OF my
NJ, vas when my boss stepped up to me
- said. you're n railroad man. knew
"a made good them
rhe breeze Of the western winds was In
h,r tone the pink OF an oregon apple IN
.kc Portland girl. who is beating a
~. nath TO the goal marked Occupations
for Women.
'Ne,,.,u a woman passenger agent in town
.nls week for the forty-fourth annual con-
.r,,or Of the American Association OF
,psaveTine Agents. Her business is to cor
81 messengers for the Oregon-Washing-
~. pailroad and Navigation Company,
branch Of the Union Pacific.
NOT AS EASY AS 1T LOOKS
INST 10 look at her-and II you don't be-
,.ye n vide her picture-you'd think it
~ouIdnt be hard, You'd think that all
he'd have to do would he to step up TO
ths chairman OF the arrangements COM
rs,t,ee of a big convention pass them the
Y babv stare TO have them promise instantly
=, shln their thousand delegates or so on
her road and none other. Rut VI you inn
,rine that it's awfully easy, what with the
pmpid eve stuff. the dropping lash business,
IN
vine pose. for some women to succeed In
hns,ness step UP TO the Bellevue e-Stratford
and have little talk with Miss Lobdell.
.what we women have got to learn"
ulss I,obdell said, sis that much OF our
srccess depends on our relations with wom-
en- You can't pull the sex stun on them
Mv road employs me to get the feminine
trade for them I've got to persuade women
that our road is the very best for their
+ eomfort-that their babies can travel in
safety on Il that the SCOT which comes
from our smokestacks won't irrevocably
ruin their complexlons that they won't
. run any danger of being let down at the
@h,wrong station In short. I've got to deliver
the goods Just as n man has to-"
She pulled her blue kimono around her
examined with intense gaze n minute specb
on her nose which she suspected OF being
blackhead, but which turned out to be
merely q sample of what Ph ladelphia car
contribute in the matter of dust, and called
into the adjoining room TO her coworkei
from Spokane, likewise pioneer woman
passenger agent.
That young woman, Miss Olive Lender
came forth in pink kimono to contribute hei
part to the conversation.
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT
I'VE took our positions as experiments.
she said. I'VE were newspaper women
both OF us. and when the president of oul
road, ]. ID. Ferrell, said the persuasive
tongue Of women could be used to advantag,
~ip the railroad business. we qualified. Tha
was eighteen months ago Now we're rea
passenger agents. There are only five Of VI
In the United States"
Presently doubt. newspapers will b.
printing stories about women locomotiv,
engineers and railroad presidents. In tn,
meantime, judging from these two ex
: ponents, being woman passenger agent
riding up and down the country, seeini
things and meeting new people, must b.
huge fun. Don't you think so?