The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-19
DOHeRTY.
The story OF u Woman who New
err Had u Chance.

The STORY OF % woman VINO NcS'
err Had u Chance.
by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. 10 TIN Independent.
II you rant to see the inside Of Il station
you'd ought 10 have been here last night
It isn't often, ma'am, there is a night thaI
would be suitable for you. Idon't think
there's been half a dozen this winter tina
I'd want you round II you was my dau-
ghter or my sister-begging your pardon
ma'am, IA the best way | can put it to you
to express my meaning and the feeling
that a man has about such things.
Ever see our books? No just you look
here, il you please. Just count those
pages. Will you? From there TO there
We took in all those in December II
the month Of December, 1876, we had il
This one station two Thousand two hundred
aud fity.two men and women. Otcourse,
there's the usual share o. arreSts. There's
Mahoney, and Jones, and Sullivan, and
Pete Cartwright, and Julia Henderson
right under my finger, all arrests. All
drunk. But most Of 'em are yagrancies
in the winter time. You see It was pretty
cold last December, especially nights. And
then we are careful about our officers.
Don't allow kicking, and no more swear.
Ing Ntcm than circumstances require,
These Creeturs get such things round
among themselves. They have a fancy
Tor this station, maybe. l don't know
how that H.. We mean to be humane on
. this cOrps. That's our theory. Some Of
our officers have n very gentlemauly way,
Not that we think il makes much differ.
enCe. tell yon, madam (you may better
understand it at the o%utsel), | dont know
what your intentions are, Of courte-bul
ladies come with 30 many charitable and
curious designs which II seems q pity "a
~disappoint; but | tell you the folks that
get into these places are q hopeless lot
They're folks without a chance. Most o.
US have a chance, reckon, in this world.
some tIne or nuther even them poor
devils. But by the time they get her,
their chance ia as dead Is John Browne
body. dOn'tsa say there's never an excep'
ton. Now, there was that oreetur last
night. Maybe il somebody'd taken hel
in hand several years ago-if a lady with
the way you seem TO haye-u hope you'll
excuse me, ma'am, but there is a differ
enee in a ladys way, such as / think you'd
have TO be a man, and do a pretty rough
mans work, like mine, for instance, &c
understand so clearly as you might. ]
wished last night, l will confess, thai
ther'd been 4 lady here, 1t did occur Il
me to 90 home for my wife. But nevel
bring my vile into tie ststion,house
Heres tho entry-the last one, | mean
See! "D:-Doherty, Ellen, February sd
ISL. Eyraaey." When 1 get time In
going to countup how often that woman
name has been on these books. But !
would take a good deal Of time. IL
some years.
remember very we'll the frat time sh,
came. Don't know how l happen to
There's such a lot OF young girls. Ant
pretty ones, too. This one was more thai
commonly good.looking-An Irish girl
She had u dark style and was taller thai
most Of EN-. think II must have bee,
i've years ago. Twas the first time shet
ever been arrested. She took on dread
Jul about it. She hadn't begun TO drinl