The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-30

showing as the slimy creatures scat tered about the floor of the car. There was rapidly growing danger of near panic, when Miss conductorette, in true Joan of Arc fashion, made her way 10 the scene of the disturbance.
 Did she lose her head? Did she faint away. according to prescription? She did not. Instead, with her daintily booted little feminine foot she collected the eeis, as it were, from the various corners of the car, and with first one foot and then the other, she propelled them toward the door. The car was then passing over the river. Miss Con- ductorette opened the door and with one good swift kick which indicated past football training. she sent the whole mass through the aperture, clear of the bridge, and back into their na-
 tive element-the East river. Of course,
 when the owner of the cells, who slept happily through it all, awoke, he might have been a bit peeved to find his catch gone. But anyway Miss Conduc- torette had averted a iasu-c, prevented a stampede, and vindicated her profess sion then and there. Of course, mo- body has yet openeo up a rat-trap to test the intrepid1y of the female of the species, but it's safe bet that if
 eels didn't phase, nothing will.
 The conductorette is an experiment, and she has proved d success. Many other operators of big businesses who have been secretly longing for wom- en in all kinds of jobs, but have held back, have now come forth and are hiring girls in wholesale lots for mems" jobs. Girl 'elevator" boyshave been in vogue for soms11me put it is only recently that they have been inau- gurated in such buildings as the Singer, which is now successfully using 21 fe- o1n CTS They are planning girl soda pop vendors at the Stadium, and there is an endless string of advertisements in ev- cry daily paper for girls for jobs which a year ago would have been classified strictly as mems jobs
 | Yes, little Miss Conductorette has 1 proven that the cunning little heroine of When Bunty Pulls the Strings" that | most prophetic if not popular play of several years ago when she said. 1 There few things we couldna do,
 an men wad let us an we tried " spoke the truth.
 | Oh, yes, it is so funny I forgot to ! mention it. But of the strong ob- staces the conductotrette had to over
 come was the objection to the 'immod- ] est dress some of the lines have pre- scrbed for her The girl conductors on
 the surface cars do, for fact wear
 trousers, full-skirted coat hanging to
 the knee, regular soldier-ike puttees and
 all that But riding street car is no
 more "immodest" than riding a horse,
 and dress that will serve for one will
 surely serve for the other.
 | In a recent report before the Build | ing Managers association the following l is said of girl elevator operators in | the Singer building. and it might well
 apply also to girl conductors:
 | "The girls are busness-lilSe in appear | ance, and polite in manner, creating immediately a favorable impression and comparing in drastic contrast to the so | frequently met slovenly male operator
 with the ever-ready back talk Major ] Bleecker (manager of the Singer build ing) does not consider his experiment as l such but prefers to speak of the inno vation of women operators in the light | of a permanently established benefaetion | and something to be thankful for He has not received a single complaint of
 the service from tenants, and the opera 1 pleased with the work. The general opin- | ion is that the women operators in the | Singer building are operating the cars
 equally as well as, if not better than, men"
 Undoubtedly. New York as whole is
 decidedly pleased with women in pub lie places of this kind, and she is drink | ing a hearty Heres to 'em-may they
 last forever