Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1911 — Scotch Lassie Sails as a Stowaway [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Scotch Lassie Sails as a Stowaway

NSW YORK. —The first woman stowaway to co.me to this port in many years was brought in from Glasgow on the Anchor liner Columbia. She is Scotch, 18 years old, and her name is Annie McKean, The lassie’s presence was discovered three days out from Glasgow, nad she was taken at once before Captain Wadsworth. She was not even a wee bit afraid, and told her story with the unconcern of a professional stowaway. The first question asked by the skipper was why she had boarded the Columbia without a ticket That was easily explained. She tossed it off in a sentence. She had no intention of sailing for America. “It was like this, ye ken," said Annie calmly. “Mrs. David McDowell, of Glasga and her five wee bairns were a sailin’ for New York. Her mon was to join her at Moville. She needed help with the bairns and luggage, an’ I went along as far as Moville.” "Well, why did you not get off at

Moville when we stopped there?” asked Captain Wadsworth. "Weel, when we got there,” replied Annie, seriously, “I was so awfu’ sick frbm the pitchin’ o’ the ship that I really didna take time to think o’ goin’ ashore.” “Some one would have helped you ashore,” said the skipper. “Weel, I didna even think o’ that,” returned Annie. There was only one thing that Annie McKean did think of during her season of forgetfulness, and that was the fact, pleasing to her, that David McDowell did not join his wife aboard the Columbia at Moville. It occurred to Annie, merely as an afterthought, that inasmuch as Mrs. McDowell had tickets for herself and husband and children, and inasmuch as Mr. McDowell did not appear at Moville, it would not be well for his ticket to go “vacant” over the Atlantic. So Annie assumed that she might travel on the transportation of the missing “mon.” When the Columbia docked the skipper sent the stowaway to Ellis Island, where the immigration officials will probably deport her. Mrs. McDowell and her five children also face deportation. They have no means of support, and are likely to become public charges.