WOMEN CONSTABLES

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1739, 2 May 1913, Page 7

WOMEN CONSTABLES

SAME PAY AS MEN. At the request of the Women's Prison Association, Mr. T/C-wis on March 1J mtioducwl into tho Lower Hoiuc tA the iNow York Stuto Legislature at Albany a f>"|. onipawcring the police ct New York to appoint twenty wwnen as members of the metropolitan police iorce. Tho Bill provides that the policewomen shall be between the agt's-of -thirty nntl forty-five. They nro to v.car uniforms mill receive the same, pay us men. will bo assigned duty in dancing hflits, public parks, and picture rccatri-s, as well as in the streets, tor tho purpose ut piotecting womcr. and children. At Chicago Mrs. .Tospph Bowen, a phillintiiropist, and four other wealthy women have proffered their services to the mayor as policewomen. They t-ugscst as a uniform a long, navy blue coat reaching t the hem'of the skirt and provided villi brass butons.down the front, a sott n."nj blue felt hat,,heavy biiicl; gloves, and lowhieled walking-shoes. Mr. Harrison, tho mayor, though tun. experiment one well worth trying, and eaid he hoped the Legislature voujjl P»p ft law authorising it. Similar sentiments liava been expressed by the Mayor ot Boston.