The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-12-02
COMING AROUND THE HORN.
BOSTON FULL or EXCITEMENT
Oven PROSPECTIVE FORTUNE
EngIamders Who Are All Bound
for Seattle ON Their Way to the
Geld FfeIds-Libby's Company

Capt JOAN p. Libby. manager of the
Puget SQUAD Ts4gfoat Company. has been
IN Boston forming company with cap
stal Of sss go 70 build steamers for opera
ton between Seattle and the Copper river
and ST Michael, at the mouth OF The fa-
Ron For the navigation az the rivers,
Capt Libby proposes to build fat river
boats such as are now In Use on the Yukon
HE has been elected president and manager
OF the syndicate. with headquarters IN Sc
attic Secretary. treasurer and directors
nave been chosen and the name Of the new
company given.
Capt. Libby is now In New York city
negotiating the purchase OF a steamship.
ftss hrst intention was to secure the Va
isnciA, but she vas bought by the Pacific
steam Whaling Company. Whatever YES
sci - secured will be sent to Boston for
cargo OF Alaska provisions and supplies
and load of passengers will be brought
around the Cape.
= bosson man interested IN Capt. Lib
nS scheme has begun IN quiet way re-
carnations for the steamship Monticello,
snip used for many years in passenger and
trelght service between St John and Var
mouth.
Conservative Boston seems TO be seeth-
ing Whirlpool Of excitement; so far as Alas
Ma. ana more particularly the Copper river
district is concerned There were early
'GoutH siX sc9oOUefS Ettfng Out Tor a
VOYAGE around the cape with prospectors
and their outfits. all 10 leave al about the
same time and all bound 10 hang together
10 the end of the sea voyage. The Boston
journal OF November Is In lengthy arti-
Gle said:
Bur few people in Boston have any
conception that this little fleet OF vessels
leaving the wharves of Boston harbor
ahd some other harbors in the vicinity
tealiy compose small expedition with
one definite and startling aim in view.
They lie at different wharves: they are
aeaFiag with the parties on board under
varied internal agreements; cooperative
uhtis arrival upon the coast Of Alaska:
cooperative with the period of conditions
TO hold, share and share alike. for TWEEN
fy-fwo months. while one goes with pas
sage paid and provisions supplied for a
certain tine--hut they all go banded to-
getner TO attempt new route to the
hIondike, and en- voyage to give an hon
est trial to a new gold region
1t Is tue that .he schooner Stowell
sherman. which lies at Long wharf. is
bound for the Yukon. al least this Is the
intention of the party now, and 1t was for
this intertion that they were organized
made TO get them TO join with the others
leaving. but as yet they stand firmly
aloof. The others are not discouraged.
and III they meet between here and san
Francisco the Inducements of the new
venture will again be placed before them
in strong light
1.-THE schooner Julia Whalen has been
purchased by Chelsea parties. and has
been taken there for her outfit. BY Sat
urday the Abbie Morris will be away. BY
Saturday. too, the schooner Frank Rad
clifYe, of Gloucester. will be I'm the berth
now held by the schooner Stoweil Sher
man at Long wharf. BY that same day
a ba sob uyh
out OF Boston harbor last week to Ports
mouth to load. will be ready for her voy-
age. The schooner Nellie Coleman, too,
which cleared Tuesday, may likely throw
In her lot with the rest. Her delay Is suS-
gesfive.
1.-THE Idea with which these start out is
to meet In the spring at Seattle. If pos
sible, thence to proceed 10 the mouth of
the Copper river.
Ross McFarlane. of East Cambridge,
Is the purchaser of the Frank Il. Rad
cliffe, stout Gloucester craft of 100 tons.
She Is IA years old. but Is stanch enough
for the fierceSt winds of the Cape. Thirty
men viii form the party, which will be
off before November passes away. APP
plicatfons are pouring in from everywhere
that the news spreads. Letters arrive
daily from women willing TO stand an
ocean voyage OF $50 days and the terrors
OF Alaska after IL is over. Men write
them, but Mr.. McFarlane thinks that
women should stay home. He says: If
advertise to take women. my dear sir.
should be deluged with applications. /
know It.
This scheme differs from most others
in so far that he is practically freight
err The vessel will not belong 10 the
party but TO himself and his partner. No
vote will decide things. but with the pay
ment OF $3.50 each passenger gets taken
around 10 the Copper river where on ar
rival he is given food supplies. etc. for
one year.
The schooner will be our home he
SAYS. I shall not part with IT, / expert
TO make money with my launch freight
ing up and down the river after our men
get away My wife and family will re-
main at Cambridge while I'm away. but
that won't be for pore than several years.
you know"
The idea of these parties is that fall
ure on the Copper river means only that
they must so on to the klondike by 4
route which Is held 10 be one of the bes,
known for reaching the basin of the
Yukon The geography Of the Boston
Journal in the article from which excerpts
are quoted Is so much AZ variance with
the truth as shown by the authentic
mans. that Il leads TO the conclusion thar
on their arrival here the Boston parties
will have much 10 learn.