Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — GIRL NOW BOARDING OFFICER ON COAST [ARTICLE]

GIRL NOW BOARDING OFFICER ON COAST

San Francisco. —Women have long served Uncle Sam in the many branches of his affairs in this city, but now a new field has been invaded. Miss Elizabeth Clark, .young and pretty, has established herself as the pioneer woman boarding officer of the immigration service. Here are some of the things she has to do: .. s.— —■- * Board incoming foreign vessels In every kind of weather, from sunrise to sunset, arising at 3 a. a during the summer months. Scale the Jacob’s ladder to get aboard ships during rough weather. Leap from the wharf to a rolling customs tug and from the tug, bobbing in the choppy seas of the Bay of San Francisco, to the sjde ladders of steamers.