Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1915 — WORKS AS AUTO MECHANIC [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WORKS AS AUTO MECHANIC

Celebrated Suffragist Hiker Inspired by Ambition to Become Selfsupporting Citizen. Gen. Rosalie G. Jones, suffragist hiker, began on Monday to earn her bread as a mechanic in the Chevrolet

Automobile company’s repair shop here, though not without fear that her mother, Mrs. Mary E. Jones, an ardent antisuffragist, would stop the liberal allowance she has been giving her daughter. x Mrs. Jones inherited $1,147,000 from her husband, Oliver Livingston Jones, who died on August 8, 1913, and is said to have several other millions. Although Miss Jones is at present learning the mysteries of the carburetor, magneto and other automobile essentials, her ultimate ambition is to be a chauffeur. In this she is inspired by a desire to become self-supporting but she has some doubts of getting maternal approval. The Chevrolet company furnished her the famous yellow suffrage car from which she spoke throughout New York last summer. She is still living at the Hotel Brotzell, 3 East Twentyseventh street, but does not know how long she can stay there if Mrs. Jones tightens the purse strings. Mrs. Jones lives at the Jones country home in Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. “I don't know what mother will say,” said Miss Jones last night. “She may stop my allowance; people do strange things sometimes. I couldn’t prevent her; it’s her money. I telephoned her 1 was going into the automobile business, but 1 didn’t explain. “One has to get down and get under, you know. No, I don’t wear overalls. I wear a big apron, which is better than any masculine attire. I hope to get a chauffeur’s license and drive a taxicab in the suffrage parade when the amendment passes this fall.”

Miss Rosalie Jones.