Show I A Street Arab Becomes a Governor New York Times The limitless possibilities possi-bilities of American life are well illustrated illustra-ted by the career of Jbhn Green Brady who was recently appointed and confirmed con-firmed governor of Alaska He was born in this city and In what is now culled the Tenderloin district He knutv neither parents pa-rents nor relatives and was veritable street Arab In 1S30 a society was organized or-ganized to care for homeless waifs and little Jack Brady with a number of others was put In a car and Taken to Indiana In-diana where they were given to anybody wno would take them When the car arrived S ar-rived at Tipton and a number had been passed off a certain Judge John Green then a prominent citizen of that city went to thv > car and called for the ugliest ugli-est raggedest and most friendless of the lot Toe manager of the boys presented Jack The judge was at first inclined to refuse to receive him but finally took him home and presented him to his wife She was mortified and chagrined but after > washing up the boy she thought she mterht learn to love him Jack appreciated appre-ciated his new home and spent his leisure in study After a few years he was graduated grad-uated from the Tipton schools The Judge I then sent him to Weveland college and I afterwards to HUrvard After his graduation I grad-uation he was sent to Great Britain where he took a theological course and returned to Tlpton In ISTb He was sent to Alaska in 1S77 as a missionary by the Presbyterian church He became Interested Inter-ested in the new territory and in 1SS1 returned re-turned to the States bringing with him many specimens of gold and silver rock and told of its wonderful resources I Prospectors and capitalists became interested I inter-ested and a rapid growth in population Is the result He gave a great deal of i information on Ala kan resources mon the census reports of lEO and was one of the territorial commissioners under the Harrison Har-rison administration a |