The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-08-29

think itself wofully left" did II not re-
ceive I'm Its cargo OF feminins lleisn. =
number or seamstresses. lho7ss hu9e
understand the running OF sew,ns MA
chine and the making OF sitnPic 80,
ments. such as overalls, calico skr,s anu
bedding. They must know now It."
things together so that they LOON III,
and they must have the art o, Pueuls
on buttons and mending st9 rh csn
their hnger-tips literally. Ihey can
charge 81 for each seam they sc" oh
the machine.
Other women needed by the h Ioiluin
ers are artists to decorate me houses,
for the people Of Alaska gold llelus are
rot poor and do not propose 70 nv sir %
though they were: and they want sine-
ers actresses. recitationists and writers.
And in the work outside the proi,s,s Sui,
they want housemaids, maids OF an "oI ..
and maids that are only woinei-
able to look pretty and be pleasant 49,.
The Klondike Transportation Com
pany does not propose TO ne bun,Uupe.u III III
the matter OF Its cargo. Ihey WI. e"n NJ
measures between now and the .lll, "
the arrival of the women 10 PiVtcoN
themselves from the claims OF others.
4 woman who comes W here IN the car
OF the REPRESENTATION COMPANY ana IS
rried over land and sea, through slo"
and Ice to Circle city rs not soiins " -
gObbled up by some Yukon hlNes i hl.,i
who drops down to Circle CITY anu haRp
pens to see her and fall in love WIN
her. The Transportation ConpanS ~
look out for that in some way "'' 'O'
planned -.
That there Is n fortune for women here
no one WHO has been in this part OF
the Klondike will deny The lew women
who have come here have Done Nett
well and not one has actua.iy mdue !.
at placer mining. nor has she Panned
gold nor gone out actively prospecting,
Susie Lamar Is one who mas 10. I'LL LII,
oil 10
Germany. She has been cooklls LOT
Iadue Of Dawson. and his partner lie
paid her $40 a month right aIons;, en-
is a girl perhaps twenty years old' She
came there with the Johnson party from
Oakland. Cal She was the oniy woman
in the party.
LOtte Barnes also IS well OF. She
came over the divide two years ago ana
settled I'm Circle city. That Is the iur-
thest north Of the mining towns she
kept a boarding house and ala wei. Shc
IS a woman about 40 years old ana came
from Seattle.
There is a Mrs. Yeagcr at Dawson who
formerly conducted "A boarding house at
Circle city. She did not run boarding
house at Dawson. She was there with
her husband. who was a packer at Daw-
son. They had a packing train. she IS
a woman about forty. She came from
Colorado She made her pile hrst in her
boarding house I'm Circle city. and then
in Dawson selling cooked things pies and
cakes. She sold her mince pies for %
each.
There is also Mrs. wills who has done
well.
She was az Juneau. where she had
been working I'm the laundry. she Is
about forty-fve years old blonde, stout
and rugged. She pulled her own sled.
weighing 20 pounds. from Lake Lindeman
through TO- Lake Labarge' about seven
hundred miles.
There she did laundry work and mend
ing and finally drifted down 10 Circle
City. where she found she could charge
a man s. as easy as 81.
I believe the laundry prices were .
cents apiece for everything. We had no
coin less than a quarter. Towels and
blue shirts were . cents apiece.
Addie French IS another Circle City
heiress. She came from San Francisco
with two dogs pulling her sled. She had
$40 pounds Of baggage. In the load was
a sewing machine. When she reached
Dawson she began taking in sewing
and charged p cents yard Tor her
seams measuring them of with her arm
and nose. She got so much money to-
gether by spring that she migrated TO
Circle City and opened up a sewing cs-
adjustment. She now lends money on
speculation. one-half the find TO be hers.
Mrs Brainard does nursing in Circle
City and gets 500 per week. She can
mix medicines and carries a case OF in
struments and drugs.
The Women's Syndicate. OF New York
city, with Helen Narick Boswell as
President. has sent out here to get an
accurate map Of the klOndike gold fields.
They will send out a "woman's colony
very soon. but this Is not at all what the
KlOndikers want. They want women 10
come i'm and be one OF them and live in
their town. They extend best wishes 10
Miss Boswelrs sixty women, but say they
would much prefer sixty less wealthy
ones Miss Boswell's women will take out
"a man to do the cooking In their settle
ment but what the Circle city men want
is women TO do the cooking. They are
tired Of a man cook. They want mo-
TIERS ginger snaps and mothers pies.
Circle CITY and Dawson bot wish II
TO be known in the States that every
inducement will be made TO women to
come and settle with them. They can
own houses. practice their professions
n they have anv and be rs enterpr's-
ing as they are in any State In the I'm
ion.
When told about this Woman Tran
sportatiOn Company Miss Edith J.
Griswold, the only woman patent solici-
TOR i'm the United States, said: 1T
seems a very good thing 10 me. and. !
do not see why women Will not take
advantage OF it for free transportation.
II they do not want 10 enter any of the
beaten fields let them branch out. Let
them become patent solicitors. for IN
stance. The miners will constantly IN