CHAPTER XII.
THE RETURN HOME.
A clipping from the pages of one of Chicago's great newspapers we leave to tell the last chapter of the life of Ella Gingles.
In its few words it tells chapters of the faith and confidence placed in the Irish lace-maker by her friends in Chicago.
It was the last good-bye to the little foreigner before she sailed back across the ocean to her waiting parents and friends in the town of Larne, Ireland.
The clipping, published under the date of August 3, 1909, is as follows:
FRIENDS BID FAREWELL TO MISS ELLA GINGLES
_Impressive Reception for Acquitted Lace-maker Is Given by Illinois Orangemen, Who Present Bible and Purse._
"We believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth; in Jesus Christ, His Son, our only Mediator; in the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, and in the Bible, His revealed will."
Quoting these words from the declaration in the constitution of the Orangemen, adopted more than two hundred years ago, Robert F. Brown, Illinois state grand treasurer of the order, presented a leather-bound copy of the Bible to Ella Gingles. The Bible was the gift of the Ladies' Loyal Orange Order of Chicago, and the presentation was the climax of an impressive farewell reception given by the Illinois organization of the Orangemen order at Hopkins' Hall, Sixty-third street and Stewart avenue, to the young Irish lace-maker, who is to leave Chicago next Sunday evening to return to the home of her parents in Ireland.
On the fly-leaf of the book presented to the young girl, who had passed through one of the most grilling experiences ever witnessed in this country, was inscribed the following:
"Presented to Miss Ella Gingles by the 'Chosen Few,' Ladies' Loyal Orange Order, Chicago, August 2,1909. May the Lord watch between me and thee, while we are absent one from the other.--Mrs. Jane M. Herbison, Mrs. Rebecca McKeag, Mrs. Sarah Doonan."
More than five hundred persons, friends of Miss Gingles, had crowded into the hall, filling every available space. She sat throughout the ceremonies, during which there were a number of addresses, with Mrs. Mary Brem of the Catholic Woman's League, and at whose home at 5488 Ellis avenue she has been living since her acquittal.
William Russell, state grand master of the order, presided. Addresses were made by Samuel J. McCarroll, past grand master; H. H. Van Meter of the Chicago Law and Order League, and Rev. E. Keene Ryan of the Garfield Boulevard Presbyterian Church.
Mr. McCarroll declared it was a blot upon the citizenship of Chicago that conditions were such that a young girl found it necessary to return to her home in Europe in order to be entirely safe.
Miss Gingles also was presented with $100, which was a part of a fund raised by clubwomen in Chicago and by Rev. Mr. Ryan at a service at his church on July 11. Out of the remainder of the fund the expenses of the trip of Miss Gingles and Miss Grace Van Duzen Cooke, who is to accompany her, are to be paid.
Miss Gingles will leave Sunday evening for New York, where she will be entertained by a committee of Orangemen Tuesday and another committee of the order will receive the girl and her escort upon their arrival in Liverpool. Her home is in Larne, Antrim County, Ireland.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Italics are represented with _underscores_.
Questionable/archaic spellings have been retained from the original.
Page 35, added missing open quote before "Then the man would have been introduced."
Page 58, pluralized "inmates" in "80 per cent of the inmates."
Page 68, added missing quote before "A well dressed Chinaman."
Page 69, added missing close quote after "They're no good."
Page 81, corrected "livered servant" to "liveried servant."
Page 82, normalized "orgie" to "orgy" ("night's orgy").
Page 84, removed duplicate "who" from "asked one who was dead."
Page 90, added missing close quote after "he is hard with people."
Page 92, corrected "Larne Co., Antrim" to "Larne, Co. Antrim."
Page 103, corrected typo "Agness" in "Agnes Barrett seemed to take an interest."
Page 113, removed extra quote before "----" in "If only ----." Retained inconsistent "Charley"/"Charlie" spelling from original.
Page 120, corrected typo "O'Shaugsnessey" in "convinced Mr. O'Shaughnessey." Changed "grapevine" to "grape-vine" for consistency with earlier appearance.
Page 127, corrected typo "alits" in "alias Madame Barette." Corrected typo "O'Shaughnessy" in "also by John P. O'Shaughnessey."
Page 129, removed duplicate period after "in the neighborhood of half past six o'clock in the evening." Corrected typo "bathoom" in "Arnold was in the bathroom."
Page 133, corrected typo "leavng" in "she was leaving the hotel."
Page 135, corrected typo "repled" in "The man replied that he had not."
Page 159, corrected typo "O'Bren" in "went to see Captain O'Brien the next day."
Page 161, added missing close quote after "I told them I was eighteen."
Page 163, removed unnecessary quote after "found in Miss Gingles' trunk."
Page 165, added missing answer "Yes" after "Was that before you went to work in the Wellington?"
Page 168, split "What was the lace kept in?" from "A blue pillow case." and added missing close quote.
Page 171, hyphenated "pass-key" in "demand the pass-key" for consistency.
Page 174, added space to "La Salle" and hyphen to "lace-maker" in "La Salle avenue and ransacked the room of the little lace-maker" for consistency with other appearances of those words.
Page 176, added space to "La Salle" in "Miss Gingles at the La Salle" for consistency.
Page 179, removed unnnecessary quote after "rejoined Mr. O'Donnell."
Page 184, corrected period to question mark after "aside from being hysterical?"
Page 191, corrected typo "Recepton" in "Impressive Reception for Acquitted Lace-maker."
End of Project Gutenberg's Tragedies of the White Slave, by H. M. Lytle