The Chitina leader. [volume] (Chitina, Alaska) 1910-1928, 1913-05-13
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plight of the single men of Alaska,
and her heart bleeds in sympathetic
distress for them. She writes to
say that SHE is ready to throw her
self into the breach and be the me-
dunn through which the honest bach
elors of Alaska and good industri-
Gus girls of the East might be
brought together. She herself is
a widow, but for twenty years she
mas not ministered to the vagaries of
ordinary man. If she were little
younger she would be inclined to
again offer herself on the shrine of
the matrimonial altar, and diminish
the distress of some saddened and
lonely heart in the northland. But
be the medium" to bring longing
hearts together through the Mutual
Benefit Circle" She believes that in
Detroit there would be a general
feminine response to the lure of gold
and affection that is so insistently
calling for appreciation from even the
mountain tops of Alaska The bea
con lights that they are holding a.
loft could easily be seen for thous.
ands of miles through the medium"
And for the great service that Mrs
belong would render lonely man she
would exact Eat least one hundr ID
dollars-not less-from each single
man. And she will supply all
nationalities So eff the single men
of Cordova or vicinity should respond
at once with a draft on any ma 'onal
bank, by the time navigation opened
again there might be many happy
hearts in Alaska that are not known
now And when the boys send
her the hundred she incidentally
wants personal description of your
ideal She volunteers her good
work by reason of an article that
was sent from Seattle and published
in the Detroit Times, as follows:
Alaska needs more women. In
order to stimulate the desire of the
fair sex to move to Alaska the first
legislature, sitting at Juneau, ulan-
imously passed very liberal equal
suffrage law, giving the women of
the territory the right to vote the
same as men.
Zone reason why the law was
passed is so that it may bring more
women to Alaska. Alaska has
wealth beyond the avaricious dreams,
and abundance of gold, coal, timber
and fish, but what do all these rich
es amount to when the country is
short of women.
The northerners can get along
without coal or timber until the III
tra-conservationists feel rea ~ to 10,
these hardy northern pioneers help
themselves. They done mind 60
degrees below zero without fire, but
Christmas in the mining camps with
out women is heartbreaking affair.
''At Ruby last fall there were 1000
men, 35 women and ~ children.
The miners planned an Xmas tree,
and the few children were loaded
with presents of gold and money.
What is the use of gold dust, the
timber, fishes, birds and the wild
flowers if there We're no women with
whom they could share and enjoy
this opulence on natural resources?
mot one of the sixteen represen-
tatives and eight senators to the first
Legislature is married, and there is
naturally a feeling of sympathy for
women. Governor Walter E. Clark
has intimated that he doesn't care a
sour-dough tiapjack about equal sui
TRACE, but if he dares to veto the
measure his life would not be worth
a moments purchase.
While many married men find
work in Alaska and provide good
homes for their families, the major
ity in fact four-fifths, of the male
population, is composed of young sin
gle men, miners, fishermen, bankers,
merchants, steamship men, federal
Iemployees and laborers.
hetchikan is reported to have
400 young men who have come from
every state, but can induce no girl7
to come to the finest coast village
in Alaska.
Seward has 400 single men. VAL
DEE at least 500, and Cordova. Wran-
CELL. Juneau, Sitka. .,eldovia, Tan
ana and Copper Center, are unable to
hold dances without the married
women having to be generous enough
70 ~ ~ortners for the unmarried men
for the evening
"All these prosperous hard-work-
ing, good-hearted, generous. hand
some, healthy ar3 temperate young
men would be carer to see an equal
number of maria Geable young wo-
men come north to be their wives.
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