The Washington times., 1917-01-16


ibillty are held BY Miss Edith Mar.
shall, dIrectress of primary instrue-
tion; Miss Anna Beers, supervisor Of
the eighth division OF elementary
schools, and Miss Flora Hendiey, 80
pervisor of the sixth division Of sis.
mentary schools.
AIiss Anna Cooling IL the principal
of the Normal School. where ths pro.
fesIion OF school teaching II taught.
An interesting and welLknown per.
son ality IN the school system 10 ALIAS
Frances Farley. principal OF Park
View School, one OF the largest. n not
the largest school In the District.
Miss Farley Is prominently Identified
with the community forum movement
here.
As.essor's ofaee Leads.
The Assessors office employs the
largest number OF women OF any sin.
gle department located In the District
building. Fourteen women here are
doing a high grade OF clerical work,
stenography, typewTiting, record ~.
ing. accounting. and operating labor
saving machines used by the city.
Miss Agnes Entwistle acts as seere.
tary to the Board OF Assessors, and -
one of the high:salAried women at the
Municipal building.
Women afo necessarily. prominent
in those divisions of the citys work
where the care OF children is the main
consideration, or where the misfor.
tunes OF women and children make
them charges upon the community. :.
They do important work IN the
"A -
dren's Guardians, the probation office,
the industrial home schools (white
and colored), the Fairgrounds depart.
ment, the schools, and the hospitals.
Aid Women and ChiIdres.
At the Washington Asylum and
jail there are hfty-two women nurses
and attendants and nfty-six men.
The women employees of the board
Of charities and children's guardians.
the probation officer and the Juvenile
Court, are largely concerned with the
poor and delinquent women and chill
dren OF the city. Theirs IL follow
ing of cases" very much the same
as the work Of q practicing physician,
save that their diagnoses are mostly
for broken hearts.
Fourteen thousand "casesi'N were
handled and disposed of by the board
OF charities last year, of which Miss
A. N. Prescott Is active secretary.
The Organization OF the board OF
children's guardians has progressed
considerably IN recent years, largely
due to Miss Jessie Logic. The police
matron Is the welcome friend OF the
woman prisoner who has been
brought into the city's police stations.
Five Police Matrons.
There are i've matrons with the
metropolitan police force. They are
assigned to selected precincts of the
city. There are also three women
matrons and attendants at the House
of Detention, where women and chill
dren are held until their cases have
been tried by the authorities. And
there-are the two policewomen, vested
with full police authority. They are
attached to the detective bureau at
central headquarters in the District
Building, ano do not wear a distin-
gushing uniform.
Other berths for women are with
the health department. which has in
it's province ito see that the eight
hOur Iemale LABOR law OF the Distr1cI
is observed. Two competent and ex-
perienced women, graded as inspect
ors, have this work to do. They are
Miss II. Louise Simpson and Mrs. Car
oline Davis.
Few Women stenesraphers.
It is interesting to note that Of the
varied kinds of work that women do
for the city, the number Of women
stenographers is relatively small. The
District government furnishes a
rather forcible contradiction to the
popular belief that stenography is pre-
eminently woman's work. The Official
stenographers OF the city. are mostly
men.
what do women do, who are not
professionally trained along expert
lines among the city's workersT : Is
the question asked.
MANY kinds Of office work" Is the
answer. And that embraces filing and
keeping the city's voluminous records,
the operation of labor-saving machin-
cry, the handling of abundant CORE
spondence. accounting, and general
secretarial work.