Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1911 — Only Woman Train Despatcher. [ARTICLE]

Only Woman Train Despatcher.

The unusual distinction of being the only woman to handle trains in this country belongs to Mrs. Jennie Connor of Melrose Highlands, a suburb of Boston. She is employed by the Boston and Maine and is well known to thousands of railroad employes throughout the four states in which the road operates. •?. Not only is she a good train despatcher, but she also knows the complete construction of the locomotives in use today. It is believed by the four hundred and more engineers who report to her that she knows more about the construction of the big engines than do most of the men who assisted in their construction. Mrs. Connor has charge of all the engines used on the northern division of the road, and this has led her to take up the study of the moguls, with a result that has been amazing. Mrs. Connor believes that work for women'is a great preventive for divorce* and nervous prostration.