The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-30
YOUNG TRAVELLER.



~ sitka by Tag.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Little Jennie Beasley will have won
unique distinction as a traveller. IL the
pig Australian steamer Mariposa
reaches Sydney in safety. The child
will have journeyed half around the
world in a westwardly direction and
about third of the way around in the
northerly course before reaching her
10th birthday. and will have gone every
bit of that wide distance alone.
The tiny miss came here on Wednes-
day on the steamer Dora from Alaska.
she was the only passenger on the
boat. and filled the cabin very full of
noise at that. When any one was
looking, though. she was as demure
and bashful girl as any one OF her
years could be. She does not seem
to think II remarkable at all for little
bit OF chick like her to travel with
out parents or escort almost to the
Arctic. and then to the equator and
under It," as the navigators say.
The steamer Dora Is remarkable as
steamers go. The boat is employed as
a tender by the Alaska Commercial
company. and spends all the summer
months cruising to salmon stations
and missions with unpronounceable
names along the coast of Alaska from
the tourists who do so much talking
about the wonders of Alaska ever go.
and that is where the Dora begins her
trip. The steamer stops at about 20
little villages on this wild coast while
running about 1900 miles to Kodiak.
and then goes on westward. stopping
and stopping again at places that no.
body but an Indian ever heard OF till
she arrives at Oonalaska. Little Miss
Beasley was picked up at one of these
Indian villages called Yukatat.
The little traveller went alone from
New York city to Yukatat when she
was only years old. and so she
thought II was really nothing at all
to get on a steamer again TO travel
alone from Yukatat to Brisbane.
Queensland. when she was all or four
years older. 1t took a>deal of coaxing
to get the girl to tell about her trip
from New York to Yukatat.
- They just put q tag on me-, she
said IT don't remember much about
1t, only Their was a lady on the car
that had a girl with her that was
about as big as me. / remember 60
ing across on a big boat to Jersey
City, and 1 remember Seattle. They
have awful pretty dolls in Seattle. l
went to Sitka on the steamer. Papa
told me afterwards that II was the
City of Topeka."
~ h'Were you much afraidr'
+ why, no-what was there to be
afraid Off" said little Miss Beasley.
quickly.
Where did your father meet your"
Papa met me In Sitka and put me in
school there. and then afterwards
went on to Yukatat, where he was"
Richard B. Beasley Is the father OF
the brave child itraveler. He was ship
clerlx on the warshfp PSnta and shipped
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TO Alaska, where she Is still stationed.
Mrs. Beasley remained in New York.
but 1t was not long before she was
taken I'll, and NJ was thought best TO
send the child 10 Alaska to join her
father. And the girl had gone on the
long trip alone and mother died. Later
Mr.. eBasley left the navy and took
charge of the trading store at Yukatat.
Tiny Miss Beasley was the only white
girl in Yukatat. There were only five
white people there anyway, and but
two of them women. The girls only
playmates were the native children.
She says, however, that the Indian
girls are just as nice as any girls, and
play tag and have dolls. The child has
now started for Brisbane. because her
father wished to have her properly
schooled, and there she had no chance
at all In Yukatat, as the Swedish mis-
sion there was merely designed to save
the wicked native. At Sftka. too. the
school for white children takes them
only through the lower grades. 1t was
decided, therefore, to send Miss Jennie
70 Queensland. where she will be In the
family of her uncle. Rev. Thomas Beas-
ley.
Steward Buckley on the steamer Do
IA became very greatly attached TO the
lone little girl on the voyage down
from Alaska, and during her week 8
stay at this port he is going to keep her
at his home in the mission She has
kilograms all written out to send from
Sydney to Brisbane when she reaches
Australia. and IL is supposed that let
ter which Richard Beasley wrote has
already reached his brother. the clergy
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