Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-08-20
The Humanizing Influence.

favorite objective point for women
doubtless from the fairy-llke tale told
by Mrs. Berry, who washed out So.
0'@ from 4 few hours amateur mining
each day in addition to performing
her household duties. Then the story
Of Mrs. Wills making 10000 from the
laundry business which had enabled
her to invest in mine rated at a cool
quarter million, and similar reports
doubtless highly tinted with the color
Of the rose, has excited the feminine
mind to high pitch of excitement as
is shown by the number ilocking to
the north at this time.
Among those now on the way to the
mines is Miss Cecil Troy, a San Fran
cisco girl who has been around the
world, daughter of Il prominent citizen
of that city. who goes mainly for re.
creation and to get a glimpse OF Arc.
tie frontier life.
Then there is Miss Blanche King, OF
New York, who has wealth to back
her and a business spirit as an incen-
tive. She believes in comfort, for she
takes with her a colorcd cook, maid,
four canarics, Il parrot, three dogs, Il
horse, piano and $4,000 in coin.
The money is to be used in supplying
capital for miners secured by interests
in their claims. She expects to bring
down ten times her present capital in
dust by next Spring. She has specu-
lated considerably in stocks and been
SO lucky as to Undue her with an idea
everything she handles turns into gold.
Another woman who sees a fortune
awaiting her in the mining camp is
Mrs. Carey Dimond, whose escapade
from her husband and home on the
Sandwich Islands, few months ago,
made for her notoriety which she
now proposes to turn to account as a
vaudeville star, at salary of $500 per
week.
The proposition of Mrs. Holes, OF
Columbus, Ohio, to take a colony of
girls to Klondike, is based upon a cor
rect conception of mans greatest need
when isolated from the social world.
Solitude incites that most potent mis-
cry, inconsistencies, and the absence
of woman's refining influence is invar-
iably followed by loss of self-respect
that speedily lowers man to a level
with the brute creation. It will not
be surprising that, under these condi-
tiOns, all the women who fit north
ward will be literally birds of paradise,
and welcomed to golden cages with
hearts as warm as the temperature is
frigid and the climate inhospitable.
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY
CHANGEs.-C. S. Mellen was q few
days ago elected President of the
Northern Pacific Railway Co., and
Daniel L. Lamont Vice President.
Mr.. Mellen is Second Vice President
of the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford railroad, and was formerly mana
ger of the Union Pacific railroad. The
Office of President of the Northern
Pacific was rendered vacant by the res
ignation of Mr.. Winter. Hitherto
there has been no Vice President. La
mont, it has long been rumored, was
to fill some Office in the company. In
accepting the resignation of President
Winter, to take effect August 81, the
the Board of Directors adopted reso.
luton expressing their high apprecia-
ton of Mr.. Winters efficient services
in behalf of the company, and their
sincere regret at his early retirement
Mr.. Mellen is brother-in-law of Gen.
eral Traffic Manager Hannaford, oil
the N. p, aud therefore no change in
present management thereof is ex.
pected. Mr.. Lamont will be the finan.
cial agent of the road