Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1911 — Woman Expert Railroader. [ARTICLE]

Woman Expert Railroader.

Georgia M. Martin, a native daughter of Minnesota, who began her railroad career at Missoula, Mont., four and a half years/ago, claims the distinction of being the only woman on the continent occupying the position of chief clerk in the office of a master mechanic of a transcontinental system. Miss Martin, who out of her teens, is connected in the foregoing capacity in the office of Thomas J. Cutler, master mechanic of the Northern Pacific railroad company in Spokane. She has full charge when Cutler is on the road. Officials of the Spokane office are proud of her work, saying it equals that of the most efficient clerk on the road. Miss Martin fully understands the mechanism of the several locomotives, “and,” as one of the machinists at the round house put it, “she could give directions to put a big mogul together in a ‘pinch.’ She’ll be boss of the job some of these fine days.”