The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-10

always al sea. ard sccn got tired OF see
Ing nothing but water.
Comes Ashore af Seattle.
We finally came back 20 san Fran
cisco. bat only stayed there a short tirue.
when we came 90 Seattle i was getting
tired of the sea by this time. and wnsn
I got liberty In Seattle us Kids went
ashore. ard enjoyed ourselves We were
fourteen days ashore. and we would have
been court ma rtfafed II we had hone back
Callahan AMI Schnaegi went aboard Ike
big chnrurs. and suppose they are there
yet / got some girls clothes, hang
around Seattle ard came here.
At this moment Crap Burke. who
rresitss at the crap table in the Big
Rock saloon. entered the room and made
himself al home. and the girl eiscontin-
uei her stery. Other gamblers came in
and the girl treated them all cordially.
ard they seemed TO regard her with es-
pecial care. but paid no particular atten-
ton 70 what she had TO say about her
life as a sailor.
The Truth OF Her Enlistment.
The girls story of her adventures as
sailor was 50 full OF frnprot,atsii that
IL was necessary to obtain corroboratiTe
evidence in order 20 segregate the facts
from her fiction. Billy Fiske. a sailor
on the Mohicau, said that three weeks
ago. when the Mohican and the Monte
rey were both at Port Angeles, billy"
Root, the plumber on the latter vessel.
told him about the girl. FIske said:
Root told me that he met the girl at
Whatcom last August and she was dead
crazy TO ship. but he told her IL was no
use TO try. and that was the end of 1t.
Then the Monterey w~..t TO Port Angeles.
and few days later the girl showed UP
In that town and again expressed her de-
sire TO ship. This time Root says he got
a uniform for her and they took in the
town together. Then he struggled her
on board and kept her in the plumber
room. Nearly all of the other fellows
thought she was a boy and didn't pay
much attention TO her. She went with
them TO Portland and then came bacS
to the Sound again. About three weeks
ago. when I'm Seattle, Root got afraid the
officers would take a tumble and he sent
the girl ashore.
Root did not explain how the girl was
smuggled aboard the vessel. but did say
that in the plumbing room she was in
structed how to- act and what to do. and
what to say. She was TO be the plumb
ers assistant Bradley. the master at
arms, never caught on. The officer of
the deck was the only one 10 call the
roll and the girl always answered to the
name of Dan McArdle. That's the name
Root told me she went under. Root told
me to hunt the girl upwhen ! came 10 Seat
Schofeld. an apprentice. also met her.
got stuck on her. broke his liberty and
is now In the brig fships jail). The girl
Is cuckoo. You can't believe half she
says. She is now at Leayenworth."
She Would Not DO Woman's Work.
Mrs. w. e. Bokow, member of the
Salvation army. living at 1874 Thirteenth
street, Is a sister Of the girls deserted
husband, and said of her sister-in-law:
yes, / know the girl. In fact she Is
my sister-in-law. Frank. my brother, did
everything In his power to please her, but
she would continually annoy him by not
attending to her household duties. and
she would persist in putting on his clothes
He was disheartened by her conduct. but
he tried hard to reform her. His efforts
were of no avail, and they separated last
August She was arrested with lot of
sailors a short time ago. but she prom
ised the chief of police she would go to
work for me IL he would let her go. /
kept her then for several days. but she
would not work. saying she was not do
Ing womans work. Then she went away
again. and have since heard she was in
Leavenworth. / think something should
be done by the state officials to put her
in place of refuge"