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THE OMAHA SUMDAfr Eaa; - JOInE 13, Ulo.
Omaha .Women Who Release Men for War
yXi By. Operating Eevators"in Big Buildings
. fiy JBUTH B. WHITNEY,
t ilany new lines o,f work have been
I opened to women by the sfarcity of
I n t men due totlhe ar, but into none
i have they flooded as they have
I . into the work of iterating" elc-
1 , vators. There are 32l-licensed ele
vator 1 operators in Omaha at the
.nrinf tini and 5.1 of them are wo-
, ' men. up to tne end of last July tiicrc
i- ' were only tw6 women operators, Mrs.
' r Mary Scniablc, who has been at the
I " Methodist hospital seven years, and
y t ' - Mrs. Nellie, Fetton, who has been at
"theDouglas block eight years.
? On July 26, 1517,'Bessie McMullcn
j ; appeared before the examining board
j and ecure4 a Jieensc, the ftrst one
I ' ' issued a-woman tinder present- war
conditions.'1 She ha'been at work in
t i the State Bank building, ever sin.
I "am going t 'keep right on with
? ) this work, even after the war is over,"
she, says. Xh.ej won't ever use men
on elevators ' agan, ' anyway. It s a
' laSy man's work and they cant get
f the right kintL of men td do it. They
t are fmdiiig oflt now that it k a'wo
f ' man's iob by rights." Asked how .she
r " hardened 'to vo inlo this, work she
iafft "I wis doitiBT office work and
rriy health was stiff eringfrom lack of
air 1 and exercise. ; I'te been much
better. since I Started to do this an
'" ' it U much, more Interesting work. The
- ' tenants in this building treat us tine.
Kront what I, have heard I should
think they are much nicer to us than
! k, they used td be to the men. Trob
ably it is just because we are girls,
: though." ' ;
i . - ' Mn Are Scarce.
rjiiiss ;Pekrson,"S secretary to h
: ' manager of the City National Bank
building,-! says there are three girls1
there now who have been there trom
. , the time' they' started to use girls.
) WVe . Jiave had to malte several
changes," 4he said,' "as.it is necessary
, to get the right class of girls or they
re Hot at all satisfactory. We sim
ply had to Stop using men, as good
operators were getting-scarce and fhe
poor ones are so verypoor. We pay
the girls the "same we used to pay
-I ' tb! 'men, and they seem to appre
' " Tiate JL" Most of our girls c'onfe from
. . factories or stores and they like the
elevator work much better." .
; Soihe of the girls have become in-
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pected to Jo it for a living. Eight
years ago I was working here in the
building and they had two boys as
elevator operators. They had a lot
of trouble with the boys, they were
so careless. One way one of them
watalking to . girl and not paying
much attention to what he was doing.
A lady was leaving the elevator and.
without closing the door, he started
the car upward before he was out.
She ivas caught between the next
flobr and the floor of the car and
badly hurt. It was two hours before
she regained consciousness. Later
in the same day, in some way he
caught the car door and tore it off.
That was enough for him. Mr. Mfc
Caffeety didn't know what to do.
Finally he said to me; 'You ca!h run
it, Nel.' At firs I wouldn't haveyany
thing to do with it, but he kept on
until he persuaded me to run the
elevator r.nd I have been doing it
ever since."
. Goodby Men.
Mrs. Felton is pleased to see so
many girls going into this work. "I
don't believe they will ever use men
again ",she says. "After people get
used to women they like them better,
as they are much more careful as a
general rule. I have Sever had an
accident of any kind in all my years
of service."
"I never saw a street car nor an
elevator until three weeks .'ago,"
averred -Verne Grove, a smiling little
operator at the Omaha National bank
building. "And now she is one of the
best little operator! we have." added
an enthusiastic tenant of the building.
"1 like it fine," Miss Grove said,
and all the people here are just grand
to me. I have always lived in the
countryjfabdut 500 miles from Omaha,
until three weeks ago, when I came
here with my mother, who is trying
to get well. Fheard that one could
find work here and determined to try.
f learned right away. It isn't a bit
hard and it is lots of fun."
The girls all think that women will
be permanent in this line of work,
and their employers generally con
cede that,.they are more careful and
reliable than the general run of maf 4
operators. " . T
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Kansas Wheat Prospect
Brightest in Many Years
"Kansas and eastern Colorado can .
be relied upon -to do their in ,
keeping the bread baskets of the al- '
lies filled," said. Fred Burlilgim of
Omaha, who has returned from a' trio
through the tw states. "I never saw
wheat looking better in my life than
along the Rock Island in Kansas. .It
vwill average 30 bushels to the acre and -will
soon be ready for harvest." i
Broken Leaves , :'
It .frequently i happens that" when,
one or two leaves of a spring are
broken vin the course of service, the
failure of these leaves places so
much or an extra burden on those
that-remain that they are bent out of
true alignment. In this case replac
ing the broken leaves will not give
a wholly efficient spring; the better ;
way is to replace .the entire unit.
Women Succeed As fiift Conductors
There are 321 licensed elevator operators ,in Omaha.
Fifty-thre'e of these are women.
Women will finally crow.d men out of this worje.
They are more careful than men.
They like the work and the people like them.
- Only "nice girls" are successful. '
It is more healthful than office or factory work.
tcrested andgonc into the work ow
ing to newspaper stories of the op
portunity that was now open to them.
Christine .MiscliWa, at the Iirandcis
Theater building, says she had never
forked before outside of her home.
"I inve been doifTg this five weeks
and Intend to keep on with it," she
declared. "The levers are sometimes
hard to pull, but one gets used to
that. At first sometimes people tried
to be funny about my being here, but
now they don't particularly notice me
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- , CARL CHANGSTROM, Pratident, Wettarn Dittribujor,
2020-2022 Farnam Street. Omaha, Neb. Phone Douglas 1705.
DEALERS If jroti can bantlle a big territory ourpropoition if of
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any more. If guess they are used to
seeing girls do this kind of work."
Safety First.
The work of the girls in the
Crandeis buildings varies somewhat
from that of the ordinary office
Top row: Left to right, Merle
Swanson, Minnie Peterson. Edna Day.
Front row: Pearl McClaren, Florence
Johnson, I. Kaplan, starter. Force
that operates the elevators at the First
National Bank building.
building. Owing to the presence of
the department store, there are many
women and children riding on these
elevators, and the motto followed by
the girls is "Safety First." They are
very particular about obedience to
the rules and will not operate the cars
runles? the passengers are facing the
front and are a safe distance away
from the opening., They watch
particularly to see that the little
children do not get hurt,
I. Kaplan, starter at the First
National bank building, says he had
rather have a first-class "man than the
best woman operator he has seen, but
he says that really first-class men are
practically impossible to get nowa
days and girls are far preferable to
the ordinary man. "We have to be
particular what kind of girls we have,"
Mr. Kaplan says. "We can't use the
kind that run around late nights and
are too worn out to know what they
are doing in the daytime." The girls
in this building wear a khaki-colored
one-piece uniform dress that is very
becoming and they all seem to like
the work.
Better Than Bookkeeping.
"I have been here seven jnonths,"
said one of these girls, Pearl Mc
Claren, and one of, the other girls
has been here nine months. We like
it fine. I worked jn ' an office as
bookkeeper bfore I came here, and
I like this much better. Lot's of
people think it would be monotonous
to ride up an down like this all day,
but it isn't. There1 is something
interesting almost every trip, lhe
peoplj; treat us fine and are scarcely
ever cross or impatient with us.""
Mrs. flelton, the operator in the
Douglas block, says she learned the
business" years ago in Milwaukee,
"just for fun.i' she said, "I never ex-
m .. i i bii iirtmwiii ml mi n 1 1 if i'i in mir " "r - -ja
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' CARL CHANGSTROM, Pret.
2020-22 Farnam St. Doug. 1703
( ', Omaha, Neb. - '
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economy
In an
Economy
Test
The Most
Motor Built
Develops 45 H.-P.
Six Makec
26.6Miles
On One Gallon of Gasoline
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TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Los Angeles, California.
This it to certify that we, E. H. Dunlap, Frank Van Slyke and Milton Standith,
accompanied vlr. R. H. Walter in an "economy tett," made by the Pilot six-cylinder
automobile, on April 25, 1918, and that the car made 26.6 miles on one gallon of
gasoline.
Signed: f ' '
E. H. DUNLAP. 7
FRANK VAN SLYKE
" - M. R. JTANDISH
Subscribed and swbrn before me on day and year first above written. .
F. W. FRENCH,
, Notary Public in and for the County
of San Bernardino, State of California.
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Why Business Men Buy It
ANALYSIS of Grant Six
il sales all over the country
shows that this car has a spe
cial appeal to business men
who use their motor cars a
great deal.
The high economy of the
Grant Six explains this. The
v more a business man uses his
car, the more he saves by own
ing the Grant Six with its,
average olAo miles to a gallon
6f gasoline and 900 miles to a
gallon of nt. ,
" Theusefulness and value of
the Grant Six for business
conservative , and sensible, N
expenditure, avoiding both
extravagance and parsimony.
Mechanically the' Grant
Six-is a really fine car. Its
overhead-valve engine with
balanced cranktfaft and
forced feed oiling, its 46-inch '
cantilever rear springs, its full
floating rear axle are three
features which instantly com- -mend
it to anyone who is
familiar with the highest stand
ards in motor car engineering.
Owing to the greatly reduced
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purposes is greatly enhancei output of Grant, Sixes this,
by its good looks. It has the season, the wise course is to
size and dignity that convey ?. order at once so that you will
good impression. It suggests be sure of your 'car anyway.
Price, $1095 f. o. b. Cleveland,
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