West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1902-07-24
Masquers des in Male Attire
Like Another Ellis Glenn.
WORKS AS A BOY
On the Steamer Ruth And
Fools Others.
WouLAn't Bank with 0ther Boy-Pre.
ferred Second Clerk.
A beautiful girl, with eyes that RI

A beautiful girl, with eyes that RI
vailed the blue of the summer sky,
hair of rich auburn, cropped closely
enough TO give tine boyish effect,
and form OF faultless grace and
sy mmetry, are the possessions
which Mabel McElhany, alias Dave
Kyle, has succeeded In palming off
on people for boys belongings for
several years. She palmed them off
on the crew of the steamer Ruth
last Wednesday when she applied
10 Second Clerk Earl Kline for a
position as cabin boy. She also
succeeded In pulling the wool over
the eyes of Capt. NJ B. Davis, Clerk
Roy Moore, Steward 6 D. Richards
and the remainder of the crew, as
we'll as all the passengers who
travelled on the boat during the
three round trips she made Previ-
oHs to that she had also fooled the
proprietor of the Cledenning hotel,
of Houndsville, where she also
worked for some time.
LEFT HOME.
1t now leaks ont that she lett her
home at ELK Fork a short d stance
back OF Sistersville, where she has
two brothers, Guy and Ernest Nc.
Elhaney, who are oil men we'll
known In the neig1 borhood, and a
father, whose given name could
not be learned. Pretty Mabel left
hone several weeks ago, shortly
after her mother died. She Is said
to have taken this blow very hard.
She went to a gentleman friend In
Sistersville, who would not permit
his name to be published. and made
him clip her lovely golden locks.
She then donned her brothers
clothes and left Sistersville. A
short time ago she appeared In Sis
tersville In her masculine apparel
bat 1t was not discovered who she
was, or at least those WIN recog-
nized her kept the matter ,vcret
Her identity was o IL dscuv, red
to the crew of the r b when Capt.
Joan Reedy, of The Sistersvllle
police force, teleph"ned 10 the clerz
at the " heeling wharf
HER PECULIAR ACTIONS.
When the crew had been In
formed who she was they suddenly
awske to certain peculiarities In
her manner to verify the statement
of the policeman. Her pretty face
and hair and eyes, her efeminate
form, and her aversioz for certain
liBss of werk, as well a. her many
likes and dislikes, all flashed on
them with two fold meaning.
The stewart recollected that she
had been adept In the arts peculiar
to women. and had holy horror of
cleaning the cuspidors. She re-
fused to do what she did not want
to do, and for the reason that all of
them liked her, let her have her
way. When she said Il won't" 1t
was final. One OF her won'ts re-
ferred to sleeping with the cabin |
boy. She would sleep with the
second clerk, Earl Kline,or nobody, |
and he refused the effeminate cabin |
boy the honor. They say she rs
ually slept with her clothes on.
She took strong fancy to the sec
ond clerk, and he had a sort of
hankering ior her, bat he had no
PARTICULAR reasons for It, except
that Dave" was first class "fel- |
low"
SMOKED CIGARETTES.
Mabel worked the game to fin.
ish, smoking cigarettes and indulg-
ing In profanity like the rest of
the crew, until last Saturday. when
she suddenly disappeared, saying
she was going to Cleveland. The
crew of the Ruth think she L. the
slickest anc prettiest female that
ever came up the Ohio, and 1t Is
possible they will consider favora-
sly the proposition to change the
name Of the Ruth to the Mabel
wheeling News.