The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-12
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.
Colonel Cockerill's Tribute to
the Late Mildly Morgan.
VicTORlAWoODHuLL'SC CRUSADE
The story OF . New Theater-Jim
Fisk's Widow Destitute-Thc
Rise OF an Office Boy.


spondence. mildly" Morgan is gone at
last. When / first visited New York in
1870 one of the sights pointed out to me
was Mildly Morgan. then beginning to at
tract attention as the horse and live stock
reporter of the Times. Amos Cummings,
of the Sun. called my attention to her on
the street one day, and | remember that l
regarded her with considerable curiosity.
AT that time the LADY journalist" had
not male her appearance in the West, and
was really something of curiosity in the
East. Even at that time Miss Morgan was
not handsome person to gaze upon. She
was fully six feet tall. decidedly mascu-
line in appearance, and her gait was any
thing but graceful. | have seen her at
various times since then and l have
watched her gradual decline. The
last time | saw her was some time
in the early part of April, cross
ing Park Row late in the afternoon
on her way through Mail street. She
still wore her short cloth frock which gave
her good ankle exposure and displayed
two of the most ungainly feet ever at
tached to member of the fair sex. 1t was
a blustry day and her little black straw
hat was pulled down on both sides and
tied under her chin. Despite the blustry
weather her thin coat was tapping in the
breeze. She walked with q decided limp
and carried in her hand closed umbrella
which had seen much service. An odder
piece of femininity could not have been
seen in days travel, and yet this woman
was remarkably gifted and for more than
twenty years held a responsible place on
the Times and number of other Eastern
newspapers, with which she corresponded
regularly. Although bearing an old time
Welsh name, Miss Morgan was born in
Cork, Ireland. She received a goodly part
of her education in Italy, and while there
attracted the attention of Victor En-
manuel by her skill in horsemanship.
She afterward came to know him
and he sent her to purchase horses for
his stables. In this way she became ia
miliar with horses, and afterward with
cattle, and l doubt whether there was
woman in this country who knew as much
about thoroughbred ANIMALS as she. Her
duty required daily visit or two on her
part to the filthy stockyards in and around
Jersey City. She always commanded the
respect and good will of the live stock
dealers, and the reporters for the other
newspapers, after having become habitu-
ated to a woman reporter. treated her
with the greatest consideration. She was
very fond of races. and the boys in the
reporters stand say that she never failed
to back her judgment. usually with good
results. She was well-read woman and
a most entertaining conversationalist. She
seemed to care nothing for the society of
women, or the society of any one, for
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good care of her money. She made
her home at Metuchen, N. j., where
she acted as station agent for the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. and she and her sister had
a very comfortable home down on Staten
Island. All her tastes were masculine,
but l never heard of her troubling herself
about woman suffrage or woman's rights.
When she first appeared here in New York
she said that a policeman used to follow
her about under the impression that she
was a man masquerading as woman, but
that was more owing to her outre dress
than anything else. Miss Morgan was 81
years of age at the time of her death.
Since she entered journalism in New
York with her notebook in hand, quite
number of women have been identified
with the daily press as reporters and
special writers. Every newspaper in the
city employs from one to half a dozen
women either as writers on social and
feminine topics or as regular reporters.
There is still much prejudice in the city
room of the newspapers against women
as reporters, but l think it is
dying out. In some lines of work women
are better reporters than men. They are
always sober and faithful, but it is difficult
to get woman to take any view of pub
lie question which conflicts with her preju-
dices. In all my experience in the en-
ployment of women writers, and it has
been varied, l have never known more
than two or three who did not look at
things from their own rather than from
the newspapers standpoint. have known
them to go along quietly for two weeks
and then suddenly slip into an article
some bit of prejudice that they have been
nurturlng for some years. | have yet to
meet the first LADY journalist" who is
willing to admit that she has any fitness
or capacity for society or fashion report
ing. They always do that sort of work in
a perfunctory way. and some of them do
it remarkably well. l have found
that so long as woman about q news
paper Office attends strictly to her
own business and asks no favors on ac-
count of her sex, she gets along well and
is thoroughly respected by her co-laborers.
1t is not precisely the work that / would
recommend to woman, but, where the
talent exists, coupled with willingness to
work and endure, l suppose jour
nalism offers as much to the
gentler sex as any of the higher
professions. 1t pays better and is
fully as respectable as any of them.
know at least three women connected with
the press of New York who are as good in
their respective lines as any male report
ers on the metropolitan press-only three.
VICTORIA wooDHULL's CRUSADE.
One Of the queer phases of our American
politics is that there is always some woman
who seems to enjoy the fun of being sham
candidate for the presidency. Erstwhile it
was Mrs. Belva Lockwood. Now it is Vic
toria Woodruff Martin. This marvelously
active and aggressive woman has left a
-A beautiful and comfortable
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EGSG home in England to come
Ex&fSA N over here and engage in
A4lH the folly of running for
AA president on platform
ns3S which has for its chief
II L --ln3I clause the improvement of
sTsSSAE2.v the human race. The hui
EpVSZEt name Mrs. Martin theory
eSF is that if vicious, diseased,
UsforiaW h'erhr reformed and imbecile
people on this earth can be kept from in
termarrying and propagating, very hand
some and long-lived human family will
result. In other words, she is seeking 70
introduce into our sexual affairs the same
principle which applies to the Kentucky
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