"By Independent"

Horowhenua Chronicle, 31 October 1913, Page 4

"By Independent"

(Sydney Sun). STPPGGLE WITH POVEKTY. New- York, October PJ. The only woman master builder in New York, Miss Alace Durkin, now with male master builders in obtaining contracts, and has recently completed a £-100,000 skyscraper. She is the lirst woman to be elected a member of the Building Trades Association of New York. Miss Durkin has had a career of veritable romance. She was Ihe daughter of a wealthy man who lost all his money, and when quite a young girl she took a. posl in the ofiice of a leading New York builder. That; was 1.4 years ago. Later on she set out as an employer of labour, and has gone on from success to success. KAISER AND HIS HEIR. Berlin, October Pb The Kaiser is bringing discipline to work ui)on his own fainilv. Instead of continuing Ihe Crown Prince's exile from Berlin at Danzig, (he Cermaii monarch has invented a new form of discipline by wbich the heir to the throne will remain in command of his Hussar regimen I at the provincial town until April next, and will then make a lour through (rrnnnny's African colonies. Al Ihe end of Ihe trip the Crown Prince hopes to take an important position on the general stall' at Berlin, but Ihe Kaiser has made (his conditional upon his sun's more keen observa m-c id' lh" wishes of his father. SIIOT-PCTTER HI'A I). San Prnneisco, I Iclnher 1!). Ralph Pose, Ihe holder of the ( Hympic and world's shot-pulling records, died from typhoid U'vcv yesterday al San Francisco. MARRIAGE OP TUP IN FIT. New York, October I!). Bady Tennessc Conk drastic meacures to prevent men who arc physically unlit from enlerimi 1 into marriage bonds. She holds that Ihe besl method is foi physicians lo break the code ol professional etiquette, which forbids them lo tell ihe world when I hev discover a man who is unlit, and lo brand him with a hot iron so thai he will be known and shunned. Lady Cook said that I here would be no social quest ion lo combat in ■ the next decade if this method was followed. There would be only one standard of morality. Man would be forced lo abide by ils demands just the same as woman bad lo observe them.