The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-04-23
FAMOUS NELLIE EBLY NOW IN RETIREMENT Most Noted Newspaper Woman
 Runs a Factory HAS NEVER BEEN REPLACED Elizabeth cochrane Has Had Many Imitators But no Rivals in Her
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HAS NEVER BEEN REPLACED
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G. F. Muller in the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 When. in her girlhood. and in Pittsburg, Elizabeth Cochrane chose Nellie By as her nom de plume, she selected writing name which became almost as widely known as Stephen c. Fosters song about the girl who shuts her eyes when she goes to sleep, and when she wakens up again. her eyes begin to peep
 Apropos of the recent death or Juies Verne, many Pittsburgers recalled the fact that the record of the French au- thor's hero in Round the World In Eighty Days" was broken by Nellie Bly, who performed the voyage in twenty days less time, for the New York World.
 It is ten years since Nellie By married and retired from Newspaper work yet items concerning her are copied, not only by the press of the United States, but In Mexico and Europe, where she is known and remembered.
 It was her original and popular jour- nalistic work which opened the doors or every newspaper office in the United States to women, in the hopes of finding second Nellie By. But her rival was not found, and though out of journalistic work for ten years no one has appeared to quite replace her. The ideas she ln- troduced to the public have been worked over repeatedly, with such success as usually falls to copyists.
 A Natural Reformer.
 Nellie Bly's work, with one exceptions her trip around the world, was always along the lines of reform. And the good resulting from her startling, truthful ex- poses is not easily estimated. Her incar- ceration as an insane girl in the work house on Blackwells island, New York where some 12O0 mad women were con fined, resulted in an expose which stattled the reading world. She was summoned before the grand jury to tell Of her eXpe riences, and to make suggestions Tor tie betterment of the helpless insane. The result was state appropriation of about sS COG, 900 for improvements to the asylum which were quickly made. and her sug- gestions put to actual test.
 Her expose of the station houses Tn New York brought about the passing of a law compelling the appointment of ma trons and the retention of women prlS- oners only where matrons are employed Her expose of Phelps, the notorious lobby king of Albany, destroyed his power, and freed Albany from the bribery pest. Her work led wherever reform was needed and good was to be done.
 The Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst says that Nellie Bly was the first to support him in his courageous endeavors; and Lexow, whose Investigating committed made public the infamy of the New York political rings, found Nellie Bly's pen wielded on his side from the start to the finish of his work. Before settlements and charity stunning" became fashion able fads, Nellie Bly knew the poor of New York as no one else, and she con- ducted a quiet, transformations charity that has not ceased in the years since Her ideas on the poor, and the best way to aid them Is not in accordance with general charity work as now performed and which she maintains is the main spring, the seed of pauperism, vice and crime.
 Nellie Bly-Elzabeth Cochrane - was born at Cochranes Mills, in Armstrong county. Pennsylvania, near Kittannng This place was owned, started and named after her father, Judge Cochrane. All though he died a supposedly rich man, the estate was wrecked in the settling and when Nellie By entered her teens she found herself and family without any means of support