Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1897 — INSPECTS STREET WORK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INSPECTS STREET WORK.

Mrs. Fail the First Woman to Be Given Such an Appointment. Mrs. A. E. Paul is the first woman m the world to obtain the appointment of inspector of street cleaning in a great city. She is one of eleven Inspectors who see that Chicago's streets are kept clean, and her district is the importaut one bounded by the river, Adams street^

avenue and the lake. At present she Is commander of seventeen men, ‘all Italians. During the working day ■‘he drives about in her district seeing that the men do their work properly. Mrs. Paal is stout, middle-aged, and determined. She draws $1,200 a year from the city, and paw for her own horse and carriage. Sne has made a istudy of street cleaning, and especially New York’s system, and says she would require seventy-five men to keep her district in the same condition as New York streets are kept

MBS. A. E. PAUL.