New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 18, 1915, Page 9

LIGENENS WORK lf 8 leads—m*fil's Department, - Says Los Angeies Offcer. Baltimore, Md., May 18.—A police- woman Mrs. Alice Stebbins Wells, of . Lios Angcles, Calif,, was given 'close Tattention by a special section of the onal Conference of Charities and ‘Correction here today when She told of policewomen's work. 4 For a lon tgime past, she sald, the &‘oman policeman has been a fig- eént of the' imagination, held up to dicule as the acme of the absurd jand impossible, but though the last ‘echd: of derision still reverberates, ‘théne has grown a policewoman move- t as great in strength and size as y recent humanitarian movement S attained in ‘equal time.” . Cities With Policewomen. ~Ag the latest list of cities whieh } have added regular policewomen as an k egral part of the police department lor ‘outside Work, she named, Chica- Rgosas leading with 20; Los Angeles, ‘Baltimore and Seattle with 5 each; n Francisco and St. Paul three ieh; Topeka, Minneapolis, Dayton nd Toronto, 2 each; Vancouver, Far- &0, Grand Forks, Rochester, N. Y., Ottaw#, Aurora, San Antonio, a- e, Denver, Muncie, Colorado iprings, Superior, Jamestown, Fort Vayne, Ind., Racine, Wis, and pepityf Ariz., one cach. She also ed that Sipus City, Ta., Beatrice Omaha, Neb., Boston and Salem, Bellingham, Washington, and aca, N. Y., were to be included in e list, and she named Poughkeepsie, 4 Y., and Des Moines, Ia., as places Phere a policewoman was paid from jvate funds, with approval of the ef. .Im addition there were num weittes which employed ons.: Bhe had found upon investigation at the Urited States led in this de- ture, for notwithstanding reports e employment of policewomen in | R countires she had been unable | itgflearn: that they were officially em- abroad except in Norway; and ngland in_a voluntary way. he need of women on the police rcd'had arisen, she said, from the et#hat industrial and social energy ho loniger centered in the home, “but ias given us an age in which men, | ¥omén and children, eat, sleep, work J'fih play together as never before in world's history.” Mrs. Wells First Policowoman, rs. Wolls was the .first police- W A /in' Los Angelés, the post being brea upon her initiative. “I had’ hargefof this work,” she said; “and nd Hif i i il i il I i Ll — xcel In Coom}gg an;l [leal M RANGES. is Modera Conl and Gar Conbmikisnt’ M HEATERS in Steam, Hot Water, Hot Air and Combination Hot Water and Hol Air . . . . M PRODUCTS Denole the Standard qf Excellence. Sold By [ J. A. ANDREWS & CO. No. 132 Main St. Magee Furnace Co, Inc. Boston. rests? is a question asked. Indeed lipoli peninsula and command the | northern shore of the Narrows,” says: S FIRE LOSSES $26,197,270. 3 Boston, May 17.—Losses by fire in [th Stlite, reaching a total T e .the heaviest in the history of 3 iblic by the state police today, of $2 than half of the total was due | novj} two things; That girls and ii Tr-trouble have a right.to the mpathetic help Tof office; nd that men officers-hav right xemption from what may be a con- she doss~—but as few as possible, and those' i keeping with the spirit of conflagration in Salem on Ju ALLIES FIVE MILES UP D870, According to statistios mado | the dispatch. | Massachusetts during the year Other Formidable Positions. “Behind this'lie other equally for- | 1014 1 traditional work of the policeman, on the srteet, but when a girl is to Ny . ant temptation to the weak, and‘ rom enforced and unnecessary asso- | fation; with those who, if resentful, 2 ast a cloud upon the reputation mdst exemplary. The best of- érd are the most reluctant to under- ke alone the handling of girls, and ill Bometimes resign in preference.” Wells told how the police- 1's work took her into the home p falk to mother and daughter as o man. could hope to do, and of nu- or other police ' actlvities in hick women engaged. “Work Not Silver Lining. “I' would not give the impression,” e said, ‘that the policewoman's pris is a silver lining or an orna- ‘ntal fringe to the very dark clouds law enforcement for which a police- pn stands in the average mind. She al tegral part of the department d ds for law enforcement, but Jargest and best work is to pre- oty for the securing of obedience to the very best form of law en- nt. e8 ‘the policewoman make ar-| < °’!1Q°r;*l~mo work, She does not try to do the be brought in and held for any reason, it is right for the policewoman. to go an ing her in. If she has to summ o court the proprietor of a place of amusement, she does so. These constitute arrests, yet are no more spectacular or unwomanly than the work daily performed wny other business and professional womén.” Concluding with an advocacy of the extension of State Police Mrs, Wells saw still. further work for police- women. She believed they would some day be mutually exchanged between the large-cities of any one state, traveling ‘from one to the other, in- ¢ognito fashion, and be able to. re- veal in the strange cities hitherto un- suspected conditions. A Meeting of te New Britain Motor Cycle club will be held tonight at F. C. Monier & Bros. store to decide on the next run. It is expected the run will be made next Sunday, tap at Charles GALLIPOLI PENINSULA Now Before Atchi Baba, First of Commanding Positions. London, May 18, 2:12 a. m.—The British press representative in the Dardanelles, telegraphing under date of May 10 sends a description of the first stage of the operations of the allied troops against the Turks, which he says has now ended. testifies to the splendid work already achieved by the allies in successtully landing and establishing themsélves in the face of tremendous apposition. They are now before Atchi Baba, about five miles up the Gallipoli pen- insula. “This is the first of the command- ing positions on which the Turko-Ger- man force can take a stand before we are able to move up to the Gal- If You Purchase your lager in THIS package you will buy A Real - Old Time Lager Beer: one of the beers that has made good lager beer the popular, deli- cious ' beverage it is. Case Gooao for Home use, of your Dealer or our Bottling Department. THE HUBERT FISCHER BREWERY Hartford, Conn., Brewers. ¥. Dehm, Hotel 2 W. J. RBeloin, Ke'e"e"". llmm Schmarr, He | midable positions which must be taken i hill by hill and trench by trench be. | fore the army can open the gate for the fleet and enable it to pass through to Constantinople. “There must be no false illusion as to the big.task before the allies. We are fighting a brave and tenacious | enemy, who is mast skilfully led, and | the war, as in France, is a question of how many men vou can afford-to lose to capture each trench and each kilometer of soil. Victory is only to be gained by more men and contin- uous supply of ammunition. Positions Seemed Impregnable, | “The positions already won prove | that the Turk was justified in believ- ing his positions were impregnable. | “The navy has achieved an equally | fine organization for the landing of a continuous supply of men and mu- | nitions. Piers have been built out | into deep water so that the largest | {lighters can come alongside. Roads | have been cut along. the cliffs to in- crease the area of disembarkation, ! and a hundred devices have been uti- | lized to assist in efficiency, including | lighting arrangements to permit land- ing in the night as well as in the | day.” PAY FORTY PER CENT. OF TAXES Railroads, Banks and Insurance Com. panies of Southern States. ‘Washington, May 18.—Of §300,000,- 000 collected annually for purely state urposes in the southern ard souti. Wwestern states, railroad, banking and insurance companies, especially, pay forty per cent. about §120,000,000, and, of that sum, railroads pay al- most half. Those and other exten- sive statistical detalls of taxatlon in! the section named were disclosed to- day in the flnal portion of a report by the old bureau of corporations sub- mitted to President Wilson. Other portions on taxation in other sections of the country have been published previously. Todav's report covers Virginia, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georszia, Florida, Ken- tucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Missis- sippl, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. 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