The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-09-16
MILDLY Morgan, a New York Mar
ket Reporter.

A woman can do things one would
least expect a woman to accomplish, If
she sets her mead to it. It was my hap
piness last Summer to see a lady in New
York City who has succeeded noblv in
a career few women would adopt from
choice.
Her story reads very much like a ro-
nance.
One day. near twenty years ago it
must have been, a lady landed from a
ship in New York harbor. She had
come from over the sea to make her for
tune in the United States. When she
left the ship she had "A sixpence, and no
more, in her pocket. She dropped it
into the seamen's charity fund. The
lady had letters to influential persons in
New York, and recommendations of the
highest order from His Majesty, Victor
Emmanuel, King of Italy.
One of the gentlemen to whom she
had a letter was Horace Greeley. She
was admitted to his private office, and
presented her note, likewise a modest re-
quest. 1t was that the founder of the
Tribune should give her employment on
his paper.
"What can you dor said he.
She answered in a very lady,like and
earnest way that she could report horse
races and agricultural fairs.
Horace Greeley never could under
stand a Joke, or he would have seen one
here. Also, he had a sort of general
contempt for the feminine intellect, and
he PROBABLY saw in the young lady be-
fore him a mild sort of llnatic. He
merely glared at his visitor over his
srectac,eS.
From that day to this Miss Morgan
has steadily declared that there was
only one person in America she thor
oughlv detested, and that was Horace
Greeley.
ale is the meanest person I ever saw"
said she. "He never even asked me to
. take a seat"
The great editor dismissed the aspir-
ing Young woman in short order. But
somebody about the Tribune office,
whose name is now lost to tradition,
heard the story and thought it would be
a good Joke to send the lady who want
ed to write about horses to the Saratoga
races, then about to come off. Quite in
the way of a lest this was actually done.
1t would be such fun, certain jolly I'M
der editors of the Tribue 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 ia
nous races and sent it to the paper. The
regular reporter sent his. Then it was
that the Joke turned.
Miss Morgan's account was used in
stead of the regular reporters. 1t was
in the nature of a stunning surprise to
the Tribune authorities. 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 difficulty il getting
work.
She was sen everywhere to report
harse-races and fairs. That was her
regular work fer some years, when she
exchanged it for livestock reporting.
She o only reports the cattle market.
New York drovers call her the best
Judge of horned cattle in this country.
She can tell the weight of a beef on the
foot in the twinkling of an eye. There
is this popularity about her, that what
ever work she undertakes she does it
better than anybody else. This is why
she succeeds so well. She now reports
the cattle markets for some four New
York papers. among them the Times and
Tribune. She has saved her earnings
and is quite well-to-do.
"Humph she ought to be I" said an
impertinent young lady with pink cheek
and banged hair; "she ought to be rich.
Two thousand dollars a year, and no
clothes !"
The young lady did not mean it liter
ally. She only meant to allude to Miss
Morgan's severe simplicity in Dress
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