Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
TIE HERALD.
MISS MILDLY MORGAN.
Interesting Sketch of the Lady Who
Reports the Cattle Market for
the New York Times.

a Woindn can 40 lnlDgS that one
would least expect woman to &C
complish, if she sets her head to 1t
1t was my happiness last summer to
see a lady in New York City who
has succeeded nobly in career few
women would adopt from choice.
Her story reads like a romance.
One day,near twenty years ago i,
must have been, lady landed from
a ship in New York harbor. She had
come from over the sea to make bel
fortune in the United States. Wher
she left the ship she had six pence
and no more in her pocket. She
dropped it into the seaman's charity
fund. The lady had letters TO infu,
entail persons in New York, and rec
concentrations of the highest order
from his Majesty, Victor Emmanuel
King of Italy.
One of the gentlemen to whom
she had letter was Horace Greeley
She was admitted to his private of.
fee and presented her note, likewise
a modest request. 1t was that the
founder of the Tribune should give
her employ ment on his paper.
sWhat can you do p said be.
She answered in very lady-like
and earnest way that she could re-
port horse races and agricultural
fairs. Horace Greeley never could
understand joke, or he would have
seen one here. Also he had sor,
of general contempt for the female
intellect, and he probably saw in the
young lady before him mild sort o.
lunatic He merely glared at hei
over bis spectacles.
From that day to lnis Miss Nor.
gan has steadily declared that there
was only one person in America she
thoroughly detested, and that was
Horace Greeley.
She is the meanest man / ever
saw, said she. 'He never asked me
TO take seat
The great editor dismissed the as
piring young woman in short order.
But somebody about the Tribune of.
flee, whose pane is now lost to ira.
dition, heard the story and thought
it would be good joke to send the
lady who wanted to write about nor.
SEES to the Saratoga races, then about
to come off. Quite in the way of a
jest, this was actually done. 1t would
be such fun, certain jolly under edi-
tors of the Tribune thought. But to
keep matters all straight and get a
proper account of the races, the
young man who regularly reported
such things was also sent as usual.
Ignorant of this, the intrepid MILDLY
Morgan wrote out her story of the
famous races and sent it to the pa.
per. The regular reporter also sent
his. Miss Morgan's account was
taken instead of the regular report
er's. 1t was in the nature of stun.
ming surprise to the Tribune author
tiles. 1t was so well written, so full
of spirited life, and showed such
entire acquaintance with the subject
that from that day on, this brave girl
found no trouble in getting work.
She was sent everywhere to report
horse fairs and races. That was her
regular work for some years, when
she exchanged it for live stock re-
porting. She now only reports the
cattle market. New York drovers
call her the best judge of horned cat.
tie in this country. She can tell the
weight of beef on the foot in the
twinkle of an eye. There is this Pc
culiarity about her, that whatever
work she undertakes, she does it bet.
ter than anybody else. That is why
she succeeds so well. She now re.
ports the cattle markets for some of
the New York papers, among them
the Times and Tribune. She has
saved her earnings, and is quite well
to do
Hump she ought to be- said an
impertinent young lady with pink
cheeks and banged hair, she ought
to be rich. Two thousand dollars a
year and no clothes =
The young lady did not mean it
literally. She only meant to alude
to Miss Morgan's severe simplicity in
dress.
1t was not without good reason
that she modestly remarked to Hor-
ace Greeley that she thought she
knew something about horses. Away
back in her early girlhood she was
the best Observation-Disclosures in all Ire.
land. She used to ride horseback,
standing up aud all sorts of ways,
only for the fun of it. She belonged
to an old family of the Irish gentry
soldiers and horsemen they were.
She had brother in the charge st
Belaklava, in the Crlmean war. Her
youth was very gay one, spent in
the best society in tie old country.
Sometimes, in confidential moments,
she shows to young friends the pink
satin dresses che wore to court balls
and parties in the days when she
mingled in high life. A brilliant life
1t must have been too. Miss Morgan
seldom speaks about it, seldom al
ludes to herself in any way. She il
reticent and reserved to all but few
friends, She took to horses as soor
as she was old enough to ride
There wasn't horse In Ireland
that | couldn't break and ride said
she.
She was in Italy a number o.
years. She was acquainted with the
Italian urt and court people, bu,
it must be confessed that her heart
if she had any, was in King Victor
Emmanuel's stables. The soldier
King liked good steed as we'll al
Miss Morgan herself did. He found
out her passion for the equine race
and strange as it may sound, oul
wild Irish girl became head buyer Of
horses to the stables of the King o.
Italy. told you her story was like
a romance.
When she at length left Italy, the
soldier King put into her hands biz
own watch, that he used himself, a.
a token of his high regard for her
Miss Morgan carries His Majesty,
watch to this day. On the outsid,
of it is the Kings monogram, 'v
E. set in diamonds. A belt auC