The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-18
ONE SUIT ON, ONE SUIT OFT.
THE KLoNDIKE HAS 30 TERRORs
FOR THIS WOMAN.
Miss Emily Waters. OF Syracuse,
VIII 60 North. bnt Not 20 Make
Bread and Miners shirts-she
Intends to stake Out . Claim.

Among the distinctive and picturesque
elements that are TO make mp the COM
pick life in the great mining camps along
the Yukon valley will be the woman pros
pector. Not the adventures who goes
10 lure men into nashy dance halls Or
sinseI hagnics; not the woman who ad-
vertises for a position as cook or hosse-
keeper 10 a mining party: but the woman
who squips herself as carefully and as
thoroughly as any male Kiondiker and
who sets out from some oyercrowded and
stagnating community IN the Eastern
states with the avowed purpose OF stalk
ing claim In the new mining region Of
Arctic America
That numbers Of such women are pre-
pairing TO go northward this winter and
spring Is no longer a matter OF specula-
ton or gueEswork. 1t Is an assured fact.
Little groups and parties of them, num-
berlng in some Instances as many as
thirty-hve. have already been reported in
the ielegraphic dispatches With COM
mon accord they are showing a woman's
good sense in the fact that they are all
planning to make their start norfhward
from Seattle.
Among the latest acquisitions to this
army OF women Kiondikers is Miss Emily
Waters. of Syracuse, n. T., who is now
making active preparations to start for
the klondike from this city early IN the
spring. She expects TO come across the
continent and overtaka either at San
Francisco or Seattle the New Workers
who sailed in the Nellie NJ Thurston on
October Il. They go by way Of Cape
Horn. stopping at Rio Janeiro. valpa-
raise. Aspinwall and other points. and in
all those far Southern ports the name Of
Seattle will be well advertised, for this
city Is the goal OF the expedition so far
as the Pacific coast Is concerned. 1t ex-
poets TO reach here early in March.
The party numbers twenty-one. and the
only other woman besides Miss waters
who goes northward with them Il Mrs.
Alice f. Bowles. Of Hackensack, n. J.
These women. however. are not going to
the Yukon valley to bake bread nor make
shirts for the miners. Not much! They
have planned to otherwise employ their
time. They are bona fide miners them
selves.
What do 1 propose to do up there?"
said Miss Waters TO a Syracuse Post re-
porter the other day. why. what should
I do? I'm going to stake out claim. OF
course: and maybe / shall buy up some
abandoned claims Indeed I can use a
pick and shovel myself If the occasion de-
mands IT.
Nor is Miss Waters large and muscular
and masculine. Not bit of 1t. On the
contrary, she is slender little woman who
Is altogether feminine In appearance, but
she is whole reservoir of nervous energy
and force. Push. pluck and perseverance
she Is possessed of in unlimited quantities.
and many times in her life theee qualities
have been put TO most excellent use. Album
dant good health. too. she enjoys. and her
powers of endurance have already been
we'll tested.
Il have climbed the l4l47 feet to the top
zF L. CHI, ~~y1.
more will 1t be to cross the Chilkoot pass?
Really, klondike has no terrors for me. II
may be cold up there. but shall dress for
that. i am to have brown corduroy suit,
lined throughout with fur. and the skirt
will be short. reaching only TO my knees.
My outfit have already begun TO collect.
have my sweater and my brown fur hood
and my gum boots, and my medicine chest
Is all packed
Miss Emily Waters Is a typical modern
bachelor maid. She was a member Of the
class of 1873 at Syracuse university. An
artist by profession, she has executed some
paintings that have attracted marked at
tention. Among others is an oil painting
OF the Drexel cottage at Mount McGreGor,
where Gen. Grant died Although Miss
Waters makes her headquarters at SYRIA
cuse, which is still her home. she spends
much OF her time in travel. Having known
SO much OF the fascination OF travel, the
change 10 an ordinary, humdrum existence
she nnds monotonous. -Four times she has
been abroad. in 1875 spending some time IN
Paris In the study oil art. Sne has also re-
sided in New York city. where tor a time
she nau u studio.
by long experience Miss Waters has
reduced trayeihs to science Cnlike
the ordinary woman who undertakes
Journey, she doesn't find 1t necessary to
have a whole truck load OF baggage fol-
low in her train. She doesn't even trouble
herself with SO much single trunk.
Really she laughingly explains, Il
never make up my mind to trip long
enough beforehand to pack a trunk. The
way she manages is just this: She simply
tumbles few necessaries into a satchei.
oons her waterproof coat that envelops
her from neck TO heels, puts on her al
pine walking hat picks up her umbrella.
and Is ready to take the next train. why,
what should / want of trunk?" she says.
"All that l need is one suit on and ono
suit of" The zone SUTTON" other women
will be interested to know. consists OF
travelling gown with no furbelows about
it. and the lone suit off, includes a fancy
silk waist for dress-Up occasions. With
such an outfit as this Miss Waters has
started for Europe on a moments notice,
and as for a trip from shore TO shore of
the American continent she has made
of preparing far II than does the average
woman OF getting ready TO go down town.
Such 4 woman. of course. who knows
how 20 travel In comfort and never makes
any bother. men are willing SHOULD go TO
The klondike with them But, besides.
Miss Waters is a valuable adjunct TO
party In another direction. She Is no
novice AT prospecting. She went through
the Cripple creek excitement ~ 90 with
a cool head and she owns several nice
little pieces Of mining property in the
West today. She has handled gold mug
gets herself and she knows the value o.
claim she locates without depending on
any mans advice.
Miss Waters has made money and IN
vested IL. too. with a fearlessness tina.
Is not usually characteristics Of a woman.
Among one 81 her ventures was the organ
,Eation OF the stock company Of women
who established Somerset park A sum-
NOR resort in Colorado. she being the
treasurer and member OF the board ~
directors of the company. phIanthrouic
project in which she Is interested is the
Eftgatside Home for Bots a. Denver. Colo.
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