Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1918 — WOMAN RUNS A BIG CRANE [ARTICLE]

WOMAN RUNS A BIG CRANE

Foreman of Philadelphia Plant Says She Is Better Than 60 Per Cent of Men. Philadelphia. —Miss Catherine Hahn, who operates a five-ton crane at the Tacoma ordnance plant, is said to be the only woman in the country operating a crane of that size. Her foreman declares that she manipulates the crane better than 60 per cent of the men he has seen employed at the same work. Miss Hahn is five feet six inches tall, weighs 138 pounds and is twenty-five years old. She is robust looking but not extraordinary in point of musciflar development. “I just made up my mind when I came over here to help make guns,” she said, “that I was going to do whatever I was told. I had been afraid to climb ladders and I never was a tomboy in my life, but I was determined I wouldn’t let anybody scare me; and they haven’t. I’m not as tired when I go home at night as I used to be after running a sewing machine.”