The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-25

2&fs. Mary e. Hart, president of the
Alaska Cruise club, lecturer, jour-
-nal1st, author, one OF the most i'm
teresting women of the North Pa
cific coast, who is stopping in To-
'peka today.
She knows Cherry and all the other
characters in Rex Beach's stories. She
lowed the Iron Trail" And to talk
with her Is a liberal education.
When Mrs. Hart was IL years old
she wrote Lament to Summer" saw
Il published in the young Folks
Gem" and determined to devote her
according to herself-she found she
couldn't rhyme. she decided to become
q journalist.
- Newspaper people. as one Of them
Hart was born under a journalistic
star. Having discovered this, she read
and studied and wrote. She worked
on Pacific dailies, edited the Pacific
Monthly. and. when her health failed.
and her physician ordered her north.
decided to act as Alaskan correspon-
dent for q syndicate.
The story of her first financial ven-
ture in the land now her home IL in
teresting.
Sold Papers in North.
Mrs. Hart. if you're going north
08AO llC IIdudSlHS cOltOI Ol' THO 1<OS
Angeles Herald, cant you take a
bunch of papers with you, and see
how they'll SELF"
Mrs. Hart was dubious. The man.
aging editor consulted with the cir
culation manager and the two tied l;
Sunday editions in a bundle, shipped
them with Mrs. Harris luggage, and
charged them to her-two and one
half cents per paper.
Mrs. Hart landed in Alaska, seated
on her newspapers drenched by the
cold salt sea- They had served her as
q chair; she expected an end to their
utility. Three young fellows stood on
the dock.
california papers," gasped one.
Give you ten cents apiece for 'em.
lady
Fifteen" cried the second youth.
twenty-five, and I'll take the
bunch" begged the third boy. cash
down.
Fifteen minutes later he was jubi-
lantly calling his wares: LOS An
geles Paper! Only fifty cents a
Prospected for Gold.
Mrs. Hart RENTED two and a halt
cents to the circulation manager and
began her work in Alaska encour.
aged by her first minutes in the new
land She set about to learn the Es-
kimaux language, she prospected, dug
9VAus AA0u tAC hu66CtS -OO0Alu IA O
chain, wrote her papers about It
covered public execution and
made friends with the Indians.
She tells an amusing story about 9
chief who liked timed meats dnd re.
marked briefly when he nfst !. heard 3D., .
other Indians had fed in terror.
Me? No. Eat. canned n1eatA. Heal
canned missionary TX aAs-ffisssssa--.
This was in 1900 when~thes frs
gold seekers were landing at Nome
Mrs. Hart was joined hy her huuband
and is buried there. Having clawed
gold with her bare hands, Mrs. Hart
now owns a mine Cs we'll as ranch
She has organized clubs among thu
Eskimaux; lectured for the Pacific
Coast Steamship company; acted a
department of the 1ihterior:l~ had
charge OF the Alaska Cruise club.
rooms at the St Louis fair and the
Alaksa- Yukon fair at Seattle; she /.
president Of this club. whose mem.
borship includes SIR Thomas Lipton
Jack London. Rex Beach and Johr
Muir. the naturalist; she will have
charge Of the Alaska Cruise club,
rooms and exhibits at the Panams
exposition.
unjust Stick to It." She Says.
Mrs. Hart came to Topeka from
the state, and from Kansas City
where she lectured extensively. Sh,
leaves tomorrow noon for Denver and
Tor San Diego. where she will visi
Rose Hartwick Thorpe, who wrot,
"Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight
when she was sixteen.
Summing up her years Of expert
once Mrs. Hart. charming, poised
gave her recipe for success with tn,
brevity Of the trained Newspaper wo
';eueesss comes from stick-to-itivs