THE WOMAN IN THE PILOT-HOUSE

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 3

THE WOMAN IN THE PILOT-HOUSE

Mrs. Mary B. Greeno (says an American paper) has a record uniquo cveij among women- who do original ■ things. A. darkliaircd, dark-eyed, _ gentle , little woman,' eminontly feminino in her manner, it would not occur to, most peoplo that she follows a reriiarkablo'career.; NOllO tho less, she is tlio only woman boat commander on tlio Ohio and Mississippi rivers, perhaps tho only rivor-boat-woman captain in the world. This river captain comes honestly by hor taat-o for tho-water. -Born, and brought up in Marietta, Ohio,-, slid watched the - river day afterday from her father's house.....and camo to lovo'it. Then she married .a river captain, Gordon "C.;, Greene, 'and went'to", livo 011 his. boat. . That, was fifteen years ago .and sho lias, been ,on .' tlie' Water valmost'without' interruption. over .-since.•. 'Heryhusband-is now tho genera! ■:manager of."thp, 'company' for which, lie 'worked,''Vhilo she has 'succeeded.to tlio 'command of tho .boat 'ovor' ; which; ho was onco 'master.'. [ .'Here shb spencls lier life, with" her'thr'eo children; rurinirig'' hor . vessel between Pittsburg and; .Charleston,' West' Virginia. Slio -secured; a ,'river.captain's license iii'lß9o. : When, sho' took .charge; of her boat' sho was'tljo"first-woman:t'o'.hold-such a posi-, tion. in' the. ; "United, States, aivd' presumably ■in'the''world." vl : ..' . -

.Mrs. Greene is' chaplain. of tho- Masters' arid' Pilots' Association : of • - Pittsburg and 'is activo in;all religious work.- That her unusual, occupation- has hot 1 ' freed . her from all the' foible's •of'women'is 'shown'.by; tho tales they tell of her fondness for shopping. When-' over, sho brings; in her boat and finishes her work she disappears; and the crew will tell ynu, smiling, that. their captain has'gone bargain-hunting. : • •