Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14
HEARD AROUND
THE CORRIDORS
OH, MYI DON'T you WISH you
STAYED AT THE LANKERSHIMf
BY THE EAvEsDRoPPER

| Twelve little dreams all in a bunch-my! |!
oh! my!
One little dream is quite divine,
Two little dreams are enough at one time,
But twelve little dreams all in a bunch
my! oh! my!
A pretty maid is a pretty maid, and
quite enough to set the heart of mere
man going pitter patter at a rapid
gate, but my! what is to become of
| the sex masculine, when twelve maids
each picked out because she was the
prettiest and most popular girl in her
town, invade city all in a bunch.
That is the catastrophe which has
happened The girls have come, they
have conquered, and in few days they
will depart and leave some one else
to bury the dead, heal up the wounded
tickers and restore man to his normal
state.
The Lankershim hotel was the scene
of their conquest. They landed in the
corridor without a word of warming
and Chief Clerk Lee has not been him
| self since.
The girls had come to stay, however,
and as they were chaperoned by Mr.
| and Mrs. l.. A. Reinert of Denver
there was nothing for Mr. Lee to do
but bid his heart be still and find rooms
for them.
A little later Mr.. Reinert explained:
The twelve young women are the
winners in a contest tour to the Pa
cific coast given by the Daily Mining
Record of Denver and Ores and Metals
of Denver, published by the Reinert
publishing company.
For three months SiXty-six women in
various towns of Colorado, Nevada,
Utah and other western states have
been competing in the voting and sub
scription contest which would entitle
twelve of them to come to Los An
geles. The girls worked among the
miners and it is miners votes that have
sent them to the coast. They went
down into mines in which a woman has
never before set foot and they cam
paigned in a manner that would do
credit to seasoned politicians.
Now they say 1--WE are having the
time of our lives"
In the company are girls with blue
eyes and girls with brown, but If this
contest is fair criterion the contro-
versy as to whether the blonde girl or
the brunette is the most popular must
be considered settled forever. Out of
the twelve there are only two brunettes.
One of these is Miss Emily A. Emery
Of Sugar Loaf, Colorado Miss Emery
is demure little maid of 20 summers
and an equal number of winters, with
DTOWH ndlr anu ndZel eyes. OHe IedcneS
the school at Sugar Loaf, and as she
is the only teacher in the institution
I she wrestles with all the grades. No
one would ever guess it, but the hazel
eyes are honest eyes, so 1t must be
true. She carried off the first honors
and one old miner whom she met far
up on a mountain trail where women
are not, said it was worth anything
she wanted just to see a woman.
From (iranda Colo hIIX
miss with Elsie Bauer on her card. She
admitted that she has spent most of her
nineteen years in a mining camp and
horseback riding has been her chief oc-
cupation. A complexion which some
women would give ten years of their
life to posses bears out her testimony,
and she has blue eyes and golden
brown hair, which are also worth a
great many votes.
Miss Esther Foster upholds the glory
of Goldfield in the party and she is a
! slender girl of the brown haired and
blue-eyed type.
Miss Esther Kingsley of Leadville,
Colo. is the only other brunette, and
| If she ever gets tired of being the idol
of mining camp she can have a rec
ommendation as an artists model.
One peep at Miss Anna Castonguay
of Silverton Colo, beautiful blonde,
removes all doubt as to the reason she
was chosen to represent her town.
The proof that Tonopah is not barren
of beautiful and charming girls rests
in Miss Hattie Donaldson of that camp.
From Cripple Creek, Colo, comes a
fair maiden who has left her type
writer and stenographic notes to see a
little of the sunny south.
| Miss Mayme Wheally of Searchlight,
New, carries the banner for that camp
and Miss Louise Ferguson of Mullford,
Utah, is quite beautiful enough to sat
isfy the most fastidious taste in Null
| ford or anywhere else.
Then there is the chaperon. II the
girls were one bit less attractive II
would be impossible TO see any one but
the chaperon, and they all vote they
would be gilling to go around the world
under her wing.
Many of the girls had never seen the
ocean until yesterday, and their de-
scriptions of the mingled feelings which
were theirs with their first glimpse of
the great blue We're a cross between
the pathetic and ludicrous
All are In love with California and
l really do not think It would be at ali
difficult for the right persons to per-
suade them to stay,