AN ADAPTABLE WOMAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 72, 8 November 1911, Page 6

AN ADAPTABLE WOMAN.

HOW THEY DO IT IN AMERICA. From a girls’ baseball team to the desk of stenographer in a lawyer’s otlicc, and tneuoe lo the captaincy of i tugboat, sums up the unique life record of Mrs 'T. J. Waltiiey, a young woman of 'lacoma, U.S.A., wiio has just assumed command of the tugboat illmo, of the Betts 'lowing and Wrecking Company. Her husband is chief engineer on the same boat. He was formerly on tue Great Lakes, where Mrs Walt hey, who is now ins skipper, gained her urst knowledge of marine life and acquired a master’s license. Mrs Walthcy took temporary command of tiie tug Fawn, of the same company, recently, while a now engine was being installed in the Elmo. She' was born in Minneapolis, and was graduated from the Central High School of that city. She became an athletic when ten or eleven years old, and played in the Fills bury House basket-hall toqjS for two seasons. After graduating from the Hign School, she completed a course in a business college, and was stenographer in the I Minneapolis law office for several years. Then she manned Captain \Valthey, a Great Lakes sailor, and voyaged with him. He was captain of* tiie steamship Northwest, out of Chicago, and she qualified as quartermaster, later obtaining a master’s license. From Chicago they moved to the Sound, Wathcy sailing for live .years out of Seattle on Alaskan i mats.

Four years, ago Mrs Wathcy obtained her papers ns plot for vessels of fOO tons and under between Puget Sound points and Cape Flattery. She acted as quartermaster of the Elmo before obtaining the place of skipper. The problems of tides, currents, winds, atmospheric conditions, navigation, and the like have no terrors tor the golden-haired skipper, wlio bosses the tug as easily as another woman would run housenoid affairs.