A Female Navigator.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 127, 24 April 1884, Page 2

A Female Navigator.

An enterprising- Amaerican lady ha • discoveued.ane w rfield Tfors«^s|eja££fisefulness. She has devoted her attention to theacience.of naYig^ion>i£nsrecently applied for a licerJßOi'W Command a steamboat. The Secretary to the Treasury refused to ty&dnt it on the score of se*7 but-Mjte Ma^y .Millar appotfeji to Mi 1 Secretary Forger, \vlrb; 4iavrn^-itu-rrartially examined the United States Revised Statute, * and found that' there is no law against a woman becoming a master 'ot'/a Vessol, conchiefcs liis- letters to'the StiperMsitig.lnspector-gene-ral of Vessels as follovrs : — " I 's&e ho ! l'easttn' trien, - m- utiwritten^ or written Idw, Vliy MisitesßMiller may not . lawfully demand an examination, • and if i?he proves herself duly qualiSed, have a licensetO'servfe'^s a master of a »team vessel. *-Nor is there need to ' isWppro or i?dn, on'sdcial statuii;' or '^Toman's Right,' ~ao "iealledr Hadng been put 4>n Q-od's footstool by Him, she has the, right to win her bread ia any moral decent way which is open to any of His'toiling^ creatures. She chooses to do: so as the master of a steam ves,seL "If >fie ii.fittedtpr ity though clotiied m skirts 1 rattier" than breeches, . she has v a right Iq follow it.and no maa shouldsay hei* nay.v': ■••_./•••. 5. iv