The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-16
WON'T WEAR PETTICOATS.
VEIED THAT SHE WAS BORN a GIRL,
THIS WORLD TROITER.

n n Ranch Manager New IN MeHioo-De-
tanned nt the Et,rne Omce in Nor MEXICAN
Rig, she Sends Tor Her Lawyer and Sails for
Hsnse ana Mother In q Derby ana Trousers.
Adark, good.looking young person, in q loosely.
fitting check suit OF light material attracted
much OF the attention OF his fellow passengers
on the Ward line steamship Segurnnca. which,
arrived on Wednesday from Mexican and Cuban
ports. He wns tho only second cabin passenger
who boarded tho ship at Vera Cruz. lilo wrote
his name In q big round hand az "Alejandro
Volas." He disdained the efiminacy Of cigarettes,
and smoked q pipe 40 ostentatiously as
q young fellow Just out Of college.
He also chowed tobacco. His effort to
appear very masculine led some OF his fellow
voyagers to suspect that no WA not. He slept
on tho deck envelopod in . gorgeous Mexican
blanket. He wore u sombrero and looked much
like a Mexican. His hands wore not soft.
but they were very small and shapcly, and were
adorned with several rings.
The immigration inspector at Quarantine
heard about the doubts aboard the Seguranca In
regard to NJ velas." and he notified Commits
sioncr Senner. velas was detained. The doc
tors at the Barge Office had n talk with him and
asked him II he wasn't a woman. He declared
that he was a man, and he did not wayer in the
declaration until he was turned over to the
doctors.
Then Mr.. VelRs" made q confession. She
had already sent for her lawyer, ex-Judge Dit
tenhoeier. who appeared, and told Commissions
Senner that the young womnn's mother was one
of his clients. The mother allows the young wo.
man man, VINO is about = years old, an income SUN.
her way TO England to Visit her parents. After
she had been Detained she changed her light
grnyish trousers and black cutaway. She
put her somhrer0 in her trunk and substituted
youngster of the city. The doctors tried to per-
suade her 10 dress according to the conventions
OF her sex. She said that she would kill herself
said that, she had not, worn them for
nearly eight years, and that she never in.
that she had been created a woman. and IL sho
had had any say in the matter she would have
made q botcS Of Tie Job in giving her .r' mascui Inc
Instincts without the sex. and she had deter.
with her limited e anS bbiiiiSiies as well as 'he '0uia
She said that her father was a Spaniard and
her mother a well-to-do Englishwoman. She
was born, she said. at Manila. the capital of
the Philippine Islands, and when she was a little
girl she had a strong desire to appear, as a boy
sorts of Jobs usually done by men since she first
donned male .garb. Her mother saw that 1t
s Mas gseleSf her 70 fancy any 10 and restrain SIR w,s her s,,d from
20 do as she liked. She has never been
In want, as her mother has sent her
once, worked in this city ss a stable boy. and
had been found out and compelled to give up
her place. Then she vent down to Mexico and
got a job managing a farm, as she had had ex-
perience as q farmer. She has been in nearly
every country OF Importance in the world. and
she speaks five languages.
After the immigration officials had decided to
let her go her lawyer bought her a nrst-cabin
Friedrich der Crosse, and she sailed yesterday
for Southampton as N yelas." In her fine.
her sex had been discovered. the Immigration
officials offered her a bed. She said that she had
been reared roughly, and that she was accus-
toned to sleep in the open air down In Mexico.
Then she took out one OF her glorious blankets.
was soon as sound asleep as il she had the
nerves of a cowboy.
When DR.. Senner asked the young woman.
Just before she left the Barge Office for tho pier
Of the North German Lloyd line at Hoboken. II
there was anything that she needed she gave
him a 30 bill ana asked him 10 get her two plugs
OF chewing tobacco, a paper Of smoking tobacco.
and a pipe. She got them. She said that she
got $4oo a year In Mexican money for managing
the farm.