The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-08-16
TOURIST AND MINER.
The First Happy, the Second
Sore and Discouraged.
PASSENGERS ON THE QUEEN.
The Prospectors Prom Cook Inlet Tell
Dismal Stories of the Iil-fated
Land OF .sGold"

The excursion steamer Queen with It's
crowd OF tourists aboard arrived from
Alaska last night about o'clock. Pan
demonsGn resgnsd for a brief while az
the Ocean dock and then the scene OF ex-
element was transferred 10 the hotels.
In direct contrast 20 the large party OF
wei equipped tourists. were about thirty
miners returning from Cook inlet They
came down the gang plank or the steam
er with their personal effects done up in
blankets, and they refused with an air Of
studied indifference 10 notice profrers of
3 carriage. As they walked up the street
one was stepped by a Post-InteIligencer
reporter and asked regarding the sifua-
ton at the inlet.
Well. he said. dropping his luggage
70 the ground. 'the place amt what it's
cracked up TO be. There's gold all over
the country but it's SO fine that You can't
take out paying quantities. / noticed,
too, tina, il seems 10 lie near the surface
and the deeper You go in the ground the
less you strike. There hasn't been n rich
strike made this year as far as / know.
/ was working al Anchor point for the
Excelsior party. I heard say they're no
good. but they always managed 10 pay
their men in fun. They're not making
anything" Then he shouidered his bun
die and as he turned to go said with a
weary smile, Say, where's a cheap
hotele,'
Several of the others were spoken TO
and their views were decidedly pessimis-
tic. They declared the miners were at the
mercy of mosquitoes, forest fires and
starvation. and IL steps for relief were
not taken by the government many would
surely succumb. In fact. they seemed 10
vie with each other in giving out dismal
reports.
one Of the most distinguished among
the tourist parties was that travelling un-
der the direction of the Canadian Pacific.
represented by A. e. Lalande. travelling
passenger agent. with headquarters at
Montreal. The party was made up as
follows. Mr.. and Mrs. James Quinlan, OF
Brooklyn. y. Y: ]. II. Simonson, con-
nected with a bank OF New York city. OF
which Mr.. Quinian is treasurer; DR.. J. 9.
Cutter, of Worcester, Mass: Mr. Charles
fainter. prominent electrician of Wash
ington City, and Mrs. Tainter: Mr.. Charles
NJ. Morton, OF the Lippincott Publishing
Company, and his niece. Miss Morton.
and DR.. and Mrs. +. z. Carron and
daughter, of Providence. r. /. They
were met at the steamer by +. ". McGin-
mis-. local agent of the Canadian Pacih,.
and conveyed TO the Ralnier-Geand hotel.
where accommodations had been engaged.
A number OF otner tourists had also en-
gagged apartments at the hotel and the
lobby was thronged with returned excar-
sionists. About 10 o'clock the office pre-
scented curious sighI. The two young
musicians who have been playing the harp
and violin on the streets for the past two
weeks established themselves in the lobby
and their music set an impromptu ball
I'M progress. Travelling ulsters were
thrown off valises dropped and the tour
lists whirled about over the stone floor
with an energy that spoke well for tho
wholesomeness OF the Alaska climate.
Judge Merrell, OF Nebraska, returned
on the Queen and was met by his former
host Frank +. Upton. The judge came
back much improved In health. He viii
leave for the East in a few days.
The excursion steamer has now made
its last voyage to the north this season
and will go 10 San Francisco TO make a
series of voyages to the South, a feature
of which will be a whale hunt near the
Farrailon islands.