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by this company five years, chifly in the middle west, and has the reputation of writing more insurance than any other woman in the United States. Their business apartments are artistically furnished and they hold a reception once a month which is largely attended. The landscape gardener of the Rock Island (III.) Railroad Company is Mrs. Annette McRae, who has greatly beautified the grounds around the stations. Mrs. McRae was formerly employed by the Northwestern Railroad. She was also a prominent landscape gardener in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Two women, graduated from the University of Michigan, with the degree of Bachelor of Science, are practical civil engineers, Mrs. Paul Carus and Miss Marian Parker. The latter is a structural engineer with Purdy & Henderson, New York. Miss Sarah Whittlesey, a graduate of Radcliffe College, has written for her Ph. D. degree at Yale, a thesis on the Massachusetts Labor Laws. Commissioner Carroll D. Wright of the Department of Labor at Washington, pronounces this the best work of the kind he has ever seen. The thesis has been published as a monograph by the American Academy of Political and Social Science, with an introduction by the president of Yale. The newly appointed receiver of the Dime Savings Bank of Chicago is Miss Orthena Little. She has long been employed in the bank, and is thoroughly familiar with the business. A young woman from New York, Dr. Anna Sawyer, has gone to Manila and hung out her shingle as the first American dentist, and is finding great demand for her services. One of the youngest notaries public in the country is Miss Kathryn Helmer, who is twenty years old, and has been a notary in St. Louis for two years. Mrs. M. B. Castle, widow of the late Senator Castle, is vice president of the Sandwich, Ill., Bank, with which her husband was prominently connected. A woman commercial traveler is Mrs. Morgan Butler of Peru, Ind. Her husband, being stricken with paralysis, was obliged to give up his position as "drummer" for a mitten factory, and Mrs. Morgan has filled it acceptably and supported the family.
