The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-03-08
\ new YORK VICTIM
Of A GREAT i HOAX il
queen Of Alaska Engages
C|ty's Attention.
FATHER "sP|LLED BEANS

CITY Park Waterman.
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Louise Sachen, the ''queen of Alaska"
who created a sensation in New York
with her tales of the frozen north, has
3ust confessed that she had bent the
truth q little here and there in the
$1,000 or 10000 words she has told
% that great city during seven days
about how Broadway reacted on
mind which had previously received
fhpeessions only Of the majestic seen
~ and the primitive human types Of
- 6ar north.
= Instead Of having lived since child
bod among rough but open hearted
characters in bearskin in the much
1med Wild places Of Alaska, Louise
admitted that her Impressions OF New
iHuk were based on the solid back
around Of sixteen years of Kansas
6aty observation and experience. The
d4ht way to look at her, as she ex-
11ahed, was as an ordinary Kansas
{lty girl polished by three years of
NJ IN Alaska.
The "Quoon's" History.
Louise left her family in Kansas City
boeause she did not like them and went
= Alaska for three years. She return
a 10 Kansas City last year, found she
I'm did not like 1t and bolted for New
,xoek. She wanted to disconnect her
~ from Kansas City, which sne did
not hike, and to identify herself with
fkhska, which she did like, so she al
\1Dned her history slightly when she
won't to New York. As she added to
this little fiction, in order to explain it,
under the cross examination of inter-
v1owers she built up the gigantic and
infinitely finished tale which filed sew
sfal New York papers for eight days.
When she arrived In New York with
400 and a fair wardrobe she told the
hotel clerk she had lived all her life
IN Alaska and had never seen a real
Gaty before. The hotel press agent was
calling up hotel reporters a few min
utes later.
There was plenty Of novelty In her
middle western viewpoint Her criti-
.eism of subways, lapdogs, rouging and
penciling, French cooking, theaters,
New York mems looks, New York wo-
mems clothes and Broadway lights
were as quaint as If they came from a
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-
xphia, 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.
ooh, pop certainly spilled the beans J"
she mourned. He certainly did spill
the beans right. I wrote him to say
that died at the age Of two years If
anybody asked him.
"Why, I was planning to wind
chain of nuggets around the old man.
I was going to bring him on as the
old miner that said was my dad. 1
would have got $3.50 week If he had
kept quiet That's more than he makes
in q year as a sparrow nurse In Kan
sas City,"
What 10 . "sparrow Nurss7"
what do you mean by a sparrow
nurseT'
''He is a Waterman in the city parks
head Waterman. Can you imagine
It? He would rather be an owl watch
er 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-
canized 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-
Ragement ring on her finger. HE
bought the telephone company, and I
went with it," she said. The $1,000
which she brought from Alaska, she
said, consisted Of savings OF $50 a
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 tata'
error, she said she was afraid to. she
had heard that it was penitenhary
offense.
Zone thing my father says is abso'
lutely false Louise insisted THAT il
that was biscuit shooter. I never
waited on a table in my life Please
4 don't call me a biscuit shooter. l have
shot plugs in switchboard and ever
won a medal at Juneau for efficiency