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FIRST WOMAN SWORN FOR NAVAL SERVICEWill Be Stenographer in Naval Reserve OfficeAnother to Be Private Secretary tormCommander MitchellEnrollments in the office of the Naval Reserve force at the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday numbered 31. Eleven recruits were rated as assistant paymasters, one was taken on the medical staff and 17 were assigned to the coast patrol defense service.Two young women were enlisted for clerical work by Commander George Mitchell. Miss Emily Steele of 74 Atlantic st, Winthrop, an expert stenographer, was given an efficiency test and immediately enrolled as first class yeoman and assigned to duty in Commander Mitchell’s office for private secretarial work. It is expected she will go on duty today.Miss Elsie M. Spear of 498 Belmont st, Watertown, was the first woman sworn in by Chief Machinist A. A, Gathemann, U. S. N., as first-class yeoman. She will report for duty in the office of the Naval Reserve Force as a stenographer, under Chief Clerk Edmund McGann, who, with a limited number of assistants, is working day and night to keep up with enrollments from all stations in the First Naval District. Miss Spear is enlisted in Class 4 of the Naval Reserve Force.Another office is to be fitted up for * corps of a dozen young women, who willbe. enrolled as fast as they pass theexamination.Among those enrolled yesterday wa* Dr Oscar F. Larson of Machias, Me, as medical officer. lie will remain at the Machias station and will examine recruits.The enrollment station at 42 Water st, city, reported last night a total of 41 enlistments, 39 men and two women.Enlistment wrork was progressing satisfactorily at the 5th Regiment Armory or Blinker Hill st, Charlestown, last evening. Capt William H. Wilson reported a large number of applicants, many ofwhom were unable to pass the physical examination. Five were accepted anc several others were asked to report tomorrow'. Altogether 30 have been accepted in the company since the enlist ments started.Capt James D. Weir stated that bu one applicant passed the physical ex amination last night.Capt George D. Latimer is takin( names and addresses of young met anxious to join his company, but a -he company already has 108 men enrolled no more will be accepted for tin time being.On each of the four battleships at ttn Navy Yard, the Georgia, Nebraska Kearsarge and Virginia, and on the sev eral destroyers, about 100 men were en listed in all.
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Boston Daily Globe
Boston, Massachusetts, US
Fri, Mar 30, 1917
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