The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-12-26
WILL HE RETURN?
A Long Wait for a Sailor
Father.
CAPTAIN Browns Little Girl, Who Is
Still Watching for the Over
due SeaIer's Return.

Captain William Brown of the missing
sealer Mary Brown is anxiousiy watched
for by dark-eyed little girl. who for nine
months has been absent from home aud
her Indian mother. She is waiting for her
fathers vessel, in which she hoped to be
able to return to Misoga Bay. But the
sealer has not come back. Its where
abouts is unknown, and even the most
sanguine of little Miss Browns friends
shake their heads in a knowing way and
whisper something about the sea giving up
it's dead.
Seventy-five days have elapsed since the
Mary Brown left Sand Point, and WISE
acres declare that if the vessel went down
at all she must have done so over month
ago. Whether cruel gale threw her over
on her beam ends while angry com bers
piled up over the place where she sunk.
like great marine monuments marking the
vessels watery grave. or whether the Mary
Brown, driven ashOrs by a hurricane.
struck on rock and was thrown high and
dry on desolate beach, her crew aDG
passengers perishlng in the surf in vain
attempt 10 make land, no human being
can answer.
No one can appreciate the depths Of
despair which is felt for the safety of the
little seaer more than Widow Coleman
and little Mary Brown.
Mrs. Coleman feels deeply the RESPONSE
bility OF having the child on her hands,
and does not feel inclined TO speak of the
manner in which she came into possession
OF her charge. The history of the captains
wife and his child is quite romantic. and
| only few of the old sealers know the cir
cumstances of the skipper's marriage to
the belle of the frozen pole.
About eight years ago Captain Brown
was in the employ OF the Alaska Com
mercial Company and during his frequent
voyages to the north he became ae-
Quainted with a good-Iooking Indian wo-
man. A few months later he welded her
it was not until about four years ago tnat
be purchaked sor rather caused the Mari
Brown 10 be built for several thousanK
| dollars. y
He made bis home at Misoga Bay. and
/ built there comfortable dwelling.
His eldest girI-the one mentioned
studied at the Government school, but did
| not progress rapidly enough under its
tuition to suit her father. so ten months
ago he decided to bring her to San Fran
cisco that she might attend our public
schools.
Mrs. Helen Coleman of SD Suffer
street was entrusted with the care of the
little girl, Captain Brown promising to
call to see his child after each and every
trip to the north, to see how she liked her
new home in this city and progressed in
learning. Mrs. Coleman followed the in
structiODs left with her regarding the lit
tie grl's education and training infinitely.
But as days rolled by and the Mary
Brown was still noted as overdue" she
became frightened at the delay, and then
commenced to realize that the little
stranger was left helpless upon her hands.
Months have come and gone and fleets
of vessels have been repor ed, but none
among them was the missing whaler. Cap
tain Browns little girl has been waiting and
watching, but it is safe to say that she will
have TO be returned Co her Alaska home in
some other vessel than her fathers
schooner for the return of which she has
counted the hours and minutes