Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1898 — SHE CONQUERED. [ARTICLE]

SHE CONQUERED.

Began to Cry and That Settled the Matter. “I have regained all my lost faith in womankind,” said a man to a Washington Post reporter. “As I came through the railway station gate in Jersey City one day recently on my way home, I noticed just In front of me one of the cleverest of all the Washington newspaper women, a woman whose work is marked by a courage and original strength as far removed from sensationalism a» fame is from notoriety. She was accompanied by two little boys and the gatekeeper stopped her. The elder little boy was more than 5 years old and his name was not on the pass she offered. The gate-keeper locked the gate and went with her to see the conductor about it. —The rullpgs of the road were most strict, the two officials agreed. A ticket was necessary for the boy. The newspaper woman must return to the station and buy one. “ ‘You should have had the child’s name on that pass,’ said the conductor. ‘We can’t pass him without a ticket’ “ ‘Oan’t I pay on the train?’ asked the newspaper woman, meekly. No, the conductor didn’t approve that way of doing. People mustn’t try .to beat the railway company out of half-fares. The boy tyas over 5. He must have a ticket. “I heard it all, and I listened, because I expected to see the whole railway system vanquished. I had known that newspaper, woman to revolutionize a whole town. I expected to see the conductor wither away and the gate-keeper run f&r his life, but the newspaper woman sadd never a word. She simply looked helplessly around and began to cry—yes, to cry, and the last I saw of her the conductor and the porter and the gate-keeper were helping her Into the car and begging her not to cry. The eternal feminine had spoken its last word and there was no more talk of a half-fare ticket.”