The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-02-09
new YORK VICTIM
OF A GREAT HOAX
''''Queon of Alaska" Engages
C|tys Attention.
father ''SPILLED BEANS"

Frozen North" Who Turns Out to Be
Louise sachsn, Daughter Of Kansas
City Park Waterman.
Louise Sachen, the queen of Alaska"
who created q sensation In New YORK
with her tales of the frozen north, has
lust confessed that she had bent the
truth q little here and there In the
10000 or 10000 words she has told
to- that great city during, seven days
about how Broadway reacted on
mind which had previously received
Impressions only of the majestic seen
cry and the primitive human types OF
the far north.
Instead Of having lived since child
hood among rough but open hearted
characters in bearskin in the much
dlnaed Wild places Of Alaska, Louise
admitted that her Impressions of New
York were based on the solid back
ground Of sixteen years of Kansas
City observation and experience. The
right way to look at her, as she ex-
planned, was as an ordinary Kansas
City girl polished by three years of
life in Alaska.
The "Qussn's' History.
! Louise left her family In Kansas City
because she did not like them and went
to Alaska for three years. She return
cd to Kansas City last year, found she
still did not like it and bOlted for New
York. She wanted to disconnect her.
self from Kansas City, which she did
not ike, and to identify herself with
Alaska, which she did like, so she al
tered her history slightly when she
went to New York. As she added to
this little fiction, in order to explain it,
under the cross examination of inter
viewers she built up the gigantic and
infinitely finished tale which filed sew.
eral New York papers for eight days.
When she arrived In New York with
$40 and a fair wardrobe she told the
hotel clerk she had lived all her life
I'm Alaska and had never seen real
city before. The hotel press agent was
calling up hotel reporters few min
ute8 later.
There was plenty Of novelty in her
middle western viewpoint. Her criti-
cism Of subways, lapdogs, rouging and
penciling, French cooking, theaters,
New York mems looks, New York w0-
mems clothes and Broadway lights
here as quaint as II they came from q
white Eskimo or. from a man from
Mars.
Photographed and Filmed.
! She was photographed innumerable
times. She was filmed as a current
event for a Broadway theater. She
was invited to address the University
forum, In the Washington Irving High
school, Temple university, Philadel-
phia, and other gatherings of intellec-
tuals. She got an offer Of $3.50 week
to 70 into the movies" When the
bubble burst, as she mourned because
her father had spoiled everything by
revealing the secret Of her life in Kan
sas City, she pointed to a stack of let
tiers from all parts Of the east and as
far south as Chattanooga.
aOh, pop certainly spilled the beans!"
abe mourned. He certainly did spill
the beans right. wrote him to say
that died at the age of two years If
anybody asked him.
"Why, I was planning to wind a
chain Of nuggets around the old man.
I~Was going to bring him on as the
old iminer4 that I said was my dad.
would have got $3.50 week If he had
kept quiet. That's more than he makes
in a6year a. q sparrow nurse in Kan
sas' City,"
What 10 4 "eparrow Nurss7"
'eWhat do you mean by a sparrow
nurse"
HE IL a Waterman in the city parks
head Waterman. Can you imagine
it, He would rather be IN owl watch
era all his nfe.''
Louise said that her parents. were
Austrian and that she was one of ten
children. Her parents and older broth.
ers and sisters kept up their Austrian
connections and talked the language
she said, whereas she became Ameri-
canised by working as telephone girl
In Kansas City, after leaving school.
It was in Juneau, Alaska, that she
met Jim Moloney, she said, who gave
her the diamond earrings and the en-
gagement ring on her finger. "He
bought the telephone company, and l
went with it," she said. The $1,000
which she brought from Alaska, she
said, consisted Of savings Of $50 q
month for three years as telephone
girl The best evidence that her fame
burst upon her Unexpectedly is in the
fact that she failed to assume a new
name, SO that her week Of greatness
came to an end as soon as Kansas City
heard about it. Asked about this fatal
error, she said she was afraid to. She
had heard that it was spenitentiary
o6ense.
Zone thing my father says is abso'
lutaly false" Louise insisted. ''That Il
that was a biscuit shooter. never
waited on table in my life. Please
don't call me biscuit shooter. have
shot plugs In switchboard and even
won q medal at Juneau for efficiency
IN ahoofinp Dl,1px hnt that in afID