The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-08
M0NDIKE' 8 LUCkIEST aRL
WISE LITTLE BALLAD SINGER WHO
KNEW HOW TO FIND VEL
LOW DUST
MARRIED A WEALTHY MINER
She Has Returned With "a Neat For
tune, and VIII Now Visit
the Paris EXPOSE
ton.

SAN FRANCISCO, July IA little
beauty has just arrived here from Dawson
City with a good luck story that is
pleasant to hear. She did not find a gold
mine, but she found a man who owned a
good one, and very promptly married him.
She was known here as Grace Anderson,
a vaudeville singer of some local popu-
Iarity, but her real name was Lillian
Green.
Last fall Miss Green went to Dawson to
fulfill professional engagement in the
alter there, and a few days after her ar
rival she became the wife OF Mr.. James
j. Hall, who had struck 1t rich year
or so previously, and who ranks as one
Of the wealthy men of the mining district
The young wife has just returned to TINS
city from Dawson, and while preparing
t. make a visit to the Paris exposition,
to be accompanied at her expense by her
mother and sister she is stopping with
them at No 1882 Polk street. Mrs. Han
came back from the mining country In
accordance with the instructions and ad-
vice of her physician, but her journey
home was considerably lightened by the
fact that she carried with her as a We'd
ding present from her husband the goodiy
sum of sec, 900, the major portion of 1t TO
be slowed away for emergencies, but 49,
OO6 to be used in having a good time.
hence the Paris trip.
AS the bridegroom, a Klondike pioneer,
has already taken $1,500,O00 out of his
claim. and expects this season 10 clean
up half million more, it is evident that
his princely liberality to his bride VIII
not cripple him financially, even # 1t is
all expended in a week.
A LUCKY GIRL.
In speaking of her trip, her adventures
in getting to Dawson, and her sudden but
happy nuptials. she said:
Il am the Iuckiest girl who ever went
into the KIondike. ! went through the
ice of the Yukon river and fished out one
of the best men in the world for hus-
band.
1T all happened this way: When I left
the Spring Valley grammar school out in
the Western addition, studied for the
stage. and under the name of Grace An
derson, played soubrette parts at the
Alcazar and at the Columbia. Last year
I went to British Columbia, and was play
ing at Victoria when l signed for WIN
ter season engagement at Dawson city
It was while | was on the way toward
the North pole that l met Mr.. Hall, and
not many days afterward there was
wedding in the Klondike capital and my
theatrical engagement was Cancelled.
was on the way down the river from
steamer Willie Irving, when the vessel
got caught In the ice. We were about
half way on the voyage and long way
from any place where assistance could be
had In few minutes after the boat got
caught we were forced to abandon the
vessel, and it was a hard struggle over
the jammed ice foes to reach the shore
There we made a fire on the bank. We
had landed almost on the face of "a preei-
pice, and some of us had to cling to the
rocks to keep from slipping back among
the ice hummocks. We were there about
an hour when there was momevent of
the ice and huge foes were forced up on
the shore toward US and several big pieces
crowded up on the land and swept our lire
away. We found we were in a dangerous
place, and In the darkness we scrambled
on down the stream.
HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES.
81 was dressed in boys clothing and
got along very we'll l could easily keep
up with the men. Toward daylight we
saw camp fire, and soon atterWard we
were among the crew and passengers OF
the steamer Stratton, which had that
night also been crushed in the ice That'
day we got to Selwyn, and there we
built several scows, and a week later we
started to float down the river. We got
close to Stewart. when the scow l was In
got damned in the ice, and there was an
other scramble over the crushing ice
foes to reach the land. On the way to-
ward the shore of an island 1 dropped
through a hole in the ice, and | thought
the trip had ended for me. was pulled
out of the water, however, and dragged
over the ice to land My clothing was
frozen stiff, and | was so cold / could
scarcely walk. On the island was
camp Of the crew and passengers of the
steamer Reindeer, which was also UNI
fortunate i'll having been caught In the
ice 1t was night when we got to the
island, and 1 got close to the fire as l
could to thaw out. AS I began to get
warn. the experiences Of ting trip began
TO seem funny to me, and I amused soma
of our new found friends with the tales of
my hardships. One fellow, a pioneer In
the Yukon country, listened to me q
seem 10 be the right kind of boy. Take
this blanket and crowl under this shelter
anu sleep
CUPID AND ICE FLOEs.
1.-The next day, when the pioneer saw
me in the daylight, he found was
girl. We had become good friends. and he
and I became chums for the rest of the
trip into Dawson. That Yukon pioneer
was Mr. Hall. We waited until the ice
got solid, then started out. For two
days on that trip we were without food.
On the night of the second day we reach
ed a deserted cabin. There was a little
-four and some bacon in it, and l cooked
meal for my chum and myself. A few
days later we were in Dawson. I played
a few nights at the theater, but Mr.. Hall
by that time had something to say about
it, and l forsook the footlights to take
care of his cabin. There was not much
ceremony at the wedding, but a jolly lit
tie party went with us to the priest when
the knot was tied.
"A few weeks after the wedding 1 was
taken i'll with pneumonia, and my physi-
clan declared ] would have to leave Dlw-
son. Besides the $4,000 he sent wi q 6'e
to bank for us over here my huspa ~
gave me $4,000 when I came away, with
instructions to spend it as l saw fit in
entertaining myself and he would ION
me in the fall after the summers work
was done on the claim. 1 have said
goodbye to the hard life Of the stage and
expect to live happily ever after Do YOU
not agree with me that I am. the luckiest
girl who ever went into the Klondike?"
Our Duty in China.