1893 - 1894
After a hiatus following her legendary trip around the world, Nellie Bly returned to The World in 1893. Once again both sensational and provocative, Nellie begins with interviews of noted social anarchists. She would then dive into the political jungle of Tammany Hall, debunk a noted mind-reader, and travel to Pullman, IL to cover the violent strike of railroad workers.
Listed below are the dates and titles for all of Nellie’s World articles from 1893 to mid-1894, along with the descriptive summary provided for each. Click on the “VIEW ARTICLE” button for images of these articles in their original newspaper setting. Please return as more images of articles will be posted over time. Special thanks to the staff at Doe Library at the University of California – Berkeley for their assistance in currating this material.
A complete collection of the 31 articles Nellie Bly wrote for The World during this time period will be found in THE NELLIE BLY COLLECTION: Volume V – The World (1893-1894). Coming soon from Xlibris Publishing.
She Interviews Emma Goldman and Other Anarchists. – WHAT JUSTUS H. SCHWAB AND JOHN MOST SAY OF CAPITAL. – Their Ideas of Marriage Do Away with All Ceremony. – SCHWAB’S WEDDING SERVICE READS, “HERE’S TO YOU.” – Perfect Freedom In Everything Is Their Motto – Emma Goldman’s Opinion of the Woman Who Is Married to a Man She Does Not Love – What She Says About the Wealthy and the Lazy – Why There Are Criminals – If Everything Were Free, She Says, There Would Be No Criminals – Emma Goldman Speaks Russian, German, French and English, and Reads and Writes Spanish and Italian – Schwab Talks About His Wife and Smart Children.
September 24, 1893
NELLIE BLY’S COMUMN
This is all my own. Herein every Sunday I may say all I please and what I please. Is not that a joy?
October 1, 1893
NELLIE BLY AS A SALVATION ARMY GIRL
Pathetic Scenes at the Food and Shelter Home in Front Street—Exorbitant Charges by the Booths for the Salvation Bonnets and Books—The Good They Do.
October 8, 1893
NELLIE BLY AND THE TIGER
How The World’s Young Woman Was Treated By the Tammany Chiefs. – FUN AT THE CONVENTION. – Speaker Sulzer Says He Does Not Believe in Buying Votes,
No Matter What the Emergency. – JUDGE M’MAHON ON MARRIAGE. – Tim Campbell May Be Surprised When He Reads of the Joke Played Upon Him. – REGISTER LEVY TALKS ABOUT CHARITY. – Wiskinkie Donegan Chats Confidently About Betting on the Races, His Only Vice, He Says.
A Morning Visit to the Big Chiefs at the Headquarters of Tammany Hall. – MR. CROKER HOLDS COURT. – He Is Entirely in Favor of Miss Bly Becoming a Member of the Society and Speaking for It. – HER SARATOGA VISIT RECALLED. – Dined and Talked with Delegates to the Democratic Convention from All Parts of the State. – ROSY “DRY DOLLAR” SULLIVAN. – He Made the Startling Announcement that He Didn’t Like Politics Because It Didn’t Pay Him. – THE BOSS REPLIES TO AN ANTI-SNAPPER. – For Doorkeeper of the Senate Wagner, Who Present Her to Senator Murphy, Miss Bly Predicts Great Things.
October 22, 1893
NELLIE BLY VISITS MRS. HALLIDAY
Strange Story of the Triple Murder as Told by the Prisoner in the Monticello Jail. – “I WAS DRUGGED,” SHE SAYS. – A Fight in the Hut, and Mrs. Halliday Awakes to Consciousness to Find Her Husband Gone. – THE M’QULLILLANS MISSING, TOO. – Cheerfully Discussing the Details of the Tragedy, and Stolidly Indifferent as to Her Fate. – NO LONGER PRETENDING INSANITY.
October 29, 1893
NELLIE BLY ON “THE MIDWAY”
Curious Sights and Odd Characters at the Great Sideshow of the World’s Fair. – TURKS WITH BOWERY DIALECT. – A Remarkable Galaxy of Frauds and Imposters from All Corners of the Earth. – QUEEN FATIMA AND THE JOHNNY. – As to the Dause du Ventre, It’s Not Immoral, but It’s Uninteresting and Disgusting.
November 5, 1893
A WOMAN WITHOUT A HEART
Mrs. Halliday’s Cheerful Story of Her Career of Murder, Robbery and Immortality. – CONCEALING HER VICTIMS. – Travelers Lured Into Her Hut Near to Be Poisoned, Shot and Robbed. – Her Description of the Killing of Old Paul Halliday and the Two McQuillan Women. – SIX HUSBANDS AND ONE CHILD. – An Interesting Chapter of Mrs. Halliday’s Early Life in Washington County. – ROBBERY USUALLY HER ONLY MOTIVE. – Many of the Extraordinary Details of Her Crimes Carefully Verified by World Reporters.
November 29, 1893
FOR WOMEN WHO BET ON RACES
Nellie Bly Discovers Several Pool-Rooms Where Women Are Encouraged to Back the Horses. – DRINKS BETWEEN RACES. – The Bets Recorded in a Book and the Winning Horse Announced by the Proprietor. – THE SAME FACES EVERY DAY. – Miss Bly Makes the Acquaintance of Several Women Who Have Become Habitual Gamblers. – DISPUTES OVER THE WINNINGS. – A Glance at the Wives and Mothers – Who Spend Their Afternoons Watching the Race Cards.
December 3, 1893
LIVING WITH A BROKEN BACK
Nellie Bly Visits the Young Woman Who Had a Part of Her Spinal Column Removed Last Week. – EXTRAORDINARY SURGERY. – The Patient Securely Moulded Into a Plaster Cast While the Surgeons Observe Her Progress. – AN ARTIFICIAL BACKBONE NOW. – Miss Mary Hooker Talks Cheerfully of the Future and Dr. Dawbarn Explains the Remarkable Operation.
December 10, 1893
DR. PARKHURST TO NELLIE BLY
The President of The Society For Suppression of Crime Explains His Motives and His Methods of Work. – A NEW LINE OF ACTION. – He Will Not Pursue Fallen Women, But WILL Make the Police Do Their Duty. – HIS MANY STRANGE EXPERIENCES. – How the Police Have Foolishly Driven Into His Arms the Very Witnesses He Needed. – READY TO DIE FOR THE CAUSE! – Dr. Parkhurst Candidly Admits That It Is Impossible to Exterminate the Social Evil. – NEW YORK THE WORST CITY IN AMERICA. – Mrs. Parkhurst Fully Indorses Her Husband’s Work, Believing that He Has the Protection of Heaven.
December 17, 1893
NELLIE BLY AND A MIND-READER
Miss Lancaster, Who Astonished All London, Finds The World’s Young Too Much For Her. – HER EXPERIMENTS FAIL. – Unable to Accomplish Anything When Her Confederates Are Absent from the Room. – EXPLANATION OF HER TRICKS. – Miss Bly Beats the Mind-Reader at Her Own Best Test, to the Dismay of Miss Lancaster’s Manager. – TWO UNSUCCESSFUL SEANCES. – Very Interesting Experiences with the Clever Young Woman Who Fooled the British Public.
December 31, 1893
NELLIE BLY AND THE BAND OF MERCY
Did You Ever Hear of Such a Crazy lot of Cranks as These Deluded Women – WHOLESALE CAT-KILLERS. – 6,000 Cats, 70 Dogs, 6 Sparrows, 1 Rabbit and 1 Opossum Chloroformed This Last Year – STRANGE MIDNIGHT PROWLINGS. – An Odd Gathering of Curious Women Who are Devoting Their Lives to Alleviating the Sufferings of Itinerant Cats
January 14, 1894
NELLIE BLY AND THE STARVING
A Startling Picture of Some of the Scenes of Poverty and Suffering in This Great City. – WAITING FOR DEATH. – Fathers, Mothers and Little Children Without Food in the Big East-Side Tenement-Houses. – NO PROSPECT OF EMPLOYMENT. – Many of the Unemployed Now Too Weak from Hunger to Pursue Their Hopeless Search for Work. – LIFE IN A LOAF OF BREAD. – But Hundreds of Families Too Poor to Buy Newspapers to Learn of The World’s Free Bread Fund.
January 28, 1894
THE M’DONALDS AIDED
Nellie Bly’s Story of Their Destitution Brought Help and Money to the Family in the Cellar.
February 4, 1894
NELLIE BLY AND THE GHOST
Armed with Two Pistols, She Passes a night in That Haunted House at Woodport, N.J. – THE SPOOK NOT AT HOME. – Waiting for the Appearance of the Minton Spectre and That Diaphanous Hand. – ONE MILE FROM ANY HABITATION. – Strange Antics of a Frolicsome Door Laid Bare During the Vigil While the Wind Was Howling. – A HUNT IN THE GLOOMY ATTIC. – A Rather Courageous Venture by Miss Bly That Many Men Would Shrink from Undertaking.
February 18, 1894
THE SIREN OF THE COLEMAN HOUSE
A Nest of Eager Gamblers; a Big Broadway Hotel as a Screen and a Clever Woman as the “Capper.” – TO ENSNARE NELLIE BLY. – The Wiles and Tricks of a Skilful Adventuress and Schemes to Victimize Women Who Have Money. – MRS. CLEMSHIRE; ROOM 312. – The Hushed Mystery of the “Boston Club,” and Its Select Membership of Notable Children of Fortune – PAT SHEEDY, GAMBLER, APPEARS. – His Quick Eye Recognizes Nellie Bly, He Gives the Alarm and Her Dear Friends Suddenly Disappear – INCIDENTS OF MISS BLY’S ADVENTURE. – And a Word About This Coleman House and Its Distinguished Coterie of Guests and Mysteries
March 18, 1894
A NEW TRICK IN “BARGAINS”
Nellie Bly Discovers an Enterprising Woman Who Makes You Think You Are Getting Things Very Cheap. – PIANO, FURNITURE, PICTURES. – A Bogus Bill of Sale Which Misleads Customers as to the Real Cost and Value of the Wonderful Bargains. – AN INTERESTING HOUSEHOLD. – A Striking Illustration of How Clever People in the Big Town Manage to Live on the Credulity of the Unsuspicious.
March 25, 1894
WORKED BY THE HINDOO IDOL
Nellie Bly Sees Through the Pretended Supernatural Wonders of the Nimble-Fingered Jugglers. – THE BASKET TRICK EXPLAINED. – A Private Séance with the Oriental Magicians Who Mystified Visitors to the Midway Plaisance. – THEIR VERY CLEVER LEGERDEMAIN. – But the Wily Hindoos Insist that Their Tricks Are the Miracles of the Sun God “Ramswamy.”
April 8, 1894
NELLIE BLY AT BLOOMINGDALE
Nellie Bly Sees Through the Pretended Supernatural Wonders of the Nimble-Fingered Jugglers. – THE BASKET TRICK EXPLAINED. – A Private Séance with the Oriental Magicians Who Mystified Visitors to the Midway Plaisance. – THEIR VERY CLEVER LEGERDEMAIN. – But the Wily Hindoos Insist that Their Tricks Are the Miracles of the Sun God “Ramswamy.”
May 6, 1894
NELLIE BLY AND COXEY’S ARMY
She Led the Half-Starved Commonwealers on Their March Into Washington Last Tuesday. – A VISIT TO THE CAMP. – How the fantastic Parade of Rag-Tag and Bobtail Was Organized. – COXEY’S DELUDED FOLLOWERS. – A Mysterious, Hazy Notion Among the Rank and File that Work Will Be Provided for All. – MISS BLY STARTS A HEATED ARGUMENT. – And an Interesting Discussion of the Labor Question Follows Between the Coxeyites and Their Visitors.
May 13, 1894
NELLIE BLY AND YOUNG ASTOR
The Youthful Millionaire Chats Cheerfully About His Personal Fads and Fancies. – NO BUSINESS THEORIES. – And His Head Not Bothered by the Management of the Vast Financial Interests of the Astor Estate – A MECHANICAL TURN OF MIND. – He Believes in Woman Suffrage, Canadian Annexation and Asphalt Pavements for This City. – MR. ASTOR’S ASTRONIMICAL RESEARCHES. – The Young Millionaire’s Time Devoted to
Outdoor Sports, Electrical Experiments and Travel.
July 1, 1894
NELLIE BLY AND MR. LEXOW
The Chairman of the Senate Investigating Committee Answers Some Very Interesting Questions. – MORE EXPOSURES TO COME. – What Mr. Lexow Believes Will Be the Ultimate Result of the Revelations of Corruption. – THE EXCISE DEPARTMENT NEXT. – Mr. Croker May Be Put on the Witness Stand Later On and Asked “Where He Got It.” – TAMMANY RESPONSIBLE FOR CORRUPTION. – Important Bills to Be Introduced to Put an End to Police Blackmail and Persecution.
July 8, 1894
NELLIE BLY AT THE RACES
The Women Enthusiasts Who Are Regular Visitors at the Big Tracks Every Day of the Season. HOW THEY MAKE BETS. – Backing Horses on a System and as Well Posted on Jockeys and Records as Any of the Men. – SCENES IN THE BETTING-RING. – A Little Army of Messenger Boys Employed to Place Money and
Collect Winnings for the Women. – FOURTH OF JULY AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY. – Coming Home with the Crowd of Bookmakers, Gamblers, Sports and Horse Owners
July 11, 1894
NELLIE BLY AT PULLMAN
She Visits Homes of Poverty in the ‘Model Workingman’s Town. – CUTS RENTS AS WELL AS WAGES. – That, in a Nutshell, Is What the Employees Think The Company Should Have Done. – FEAR OF FIRE FILLS THE TOWN. – Men and Women Who Suffer from the Strike Are More Bitter Towards the Leaders than Towards Pullman.
July 11, 1894
NELLIE BLY AT PULLMAN
She Visits Homes of Poverty in the ‘Model Workingman’s Town. – CUTS RENTS AS WELL AS WAGES. – That, in a Nutshell, Is What the Employees Think The Company Should Have Done. – FEAR OF FIRE FILLS THE TOWN. – Men and Women Who Suffer from the Strike Are More Bitter Towards the Leaders than Towards Pullman.
July 12, 1894
NELLIE BLY’S WINDOW
Sights and Incidents That She Saw from it in the Streets of Chicago. – SOLDIERS ARE GREST FAVORITES. – Crowds Always Linger Near the Camp By the Lake Front—No Speechmaking Allowed by the Police.
July 13, 1894
NELLIE BLY IN PULLMAN
She Learns What ‘Philanthropy at Six Percent’ Means. – THE ‘DUKE’ AND THE DOLLAR. – Tales of the Deft Way in Which the One Extracts the Other from His Workmen. – STRIKERS KEEPING PERFECT ORDER. – No Threats or Muttered Curses Heard Even at the Funeral of a Workingman Wantonly Murdered at Kensington.
July 15, 1894
CHEERS FOR NELLIE BLY
She Goes Out to Pullman Once More and Has to Make a Speech. – SAYS SHE IS A GOOD STRIKER NOW. – Though When She Went West She Was Very Bitter Against the Workingmen of Pullman. – WAGES EVER DOWN—RENTS ALWAYS UP. – Stories Told by Many More Men of What Life Meant for Them in “Paradise Town,” with Philanthropy at 6 Per Cent.
July 15, 1894
NELLIE BLY AT PULLMAN
A Sad Picture of the Misery and Suffering Among the Strikers in the Big Parlor Car Works. – WHAT THE WOMEN SAY. – Nellie Bly Talks with the Wives and Mothers Whose Children Are Starving to Death. – LOW WAGES AND HIGH RENTS. – Nothing Left to Feed the Family After Mr. Pullman Has Been Paid for the House Rent. – STORIES OF SHOCKING CRUELTIES. – Can These Surprising tales of Heartless Brutality in the Model Town of Pullman Be True?
July 17, 1894
ARE YOU AN ANARCHIST?
Nellie Bly Asked Gov. Altgeld That Question and He Said, “Pshaw.” – FINALLY A SMILE WON AN ANSWER. – She Interviewed Illinois’s Chief Magistrate on the Great Strike and He Told Her of His Life – HER WORD-PHOTOGRAPH OF THE MAN. – “Workingmen,” He Said, “Must Stand Together, Even as Capital Does, But Keep Within the Law as a Matter of Self-Preservation.”
July 29, 1894
NELLIE BLY FINDS A MODEL TOWN
The Labor Question Solved and Everybody Happy in a Little Village Near St. Louis. – A CONTRAST TO PULLMAN. – Profit-Sharing and Co-Operative Theories in Practical and Satisfactory Operation. – NO STRIKES NOR DISAGREEMENTS. – Every Workman a Stockholder with a Vote in the Management of the Company. – THEIR CO-OPERATIVE STORE. – Does the Town of Leclaire, Ill., Stand as a Living Ideal of the Proper Relations Between Capital and Labor?
