The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-16
YESTERDAY BRAVE ALL TER
RORS OF TRAVEL.
ONE OF THE NINE IS A WOMAN.
A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW OF SECRE-
TARY GAGE, WHOSE HUs-
BAND is THERE.
This Party Insists That Now Is the
Time to Invade the Gold
Region.

A party of Chicago people, promi-
nent in social and business circles, reg
istered at the Ryan yesterday, leaving
in the afternoon for the coast on their
way to Klondike. They were H. L.
Beach, Rex E. Beach, H. J. Wilson,
Garnet w. Cone, William G. Atwood,
P Koffenbergh, Russell Ulrich and Mrs
Eli A. Gage, while William H. Hub
bard is practically the head Of the
little company.
Mr.. Hubbard goes to Klondike as
the representative of the Weare9 Trans
portation company and the Cudahy-
Healey Yukon-Klondike Mining COM
pany, Of which Eli A. Gage, who is at
Dawson City, is the resident manager.
Iris company-or rather two conf
panies, although their interests are al
most Identical and they are composed
OF almost the same personals mada
up of some of Chicago's most promi-
nent business men and financiers; its
object is to engage in mining and also
transportation of miners and mer-
chandise, and incidentally to conduct
mercantile business.
The immediate object of Mr.. Hub
bards trip is to establish a system of
banks from Dawson City down the
Yukon to ST. Michael's AS it is now.
practically the only medium of trade
is gold dust, and Furthermore it is a
dlfncult and dangerous undertaking for
the miners to transport their gold from
the mines back to the states The
banks will obviate all this by taking
the gold and selling drafts on their
banking agents either in Seattle or
Chicago. The enterprise is backed by
sufficient capital to make it a success,
while the names of the hackers are
a sufficient guarantee of the stability
and security of the company.
But by far the most interesting per-
sonage in the party is Mrs. Gage, who
is a daughter-in-law of Secretary
Gage, of the treasury. Although slen-
der in stature and delicate in ply
sique, she has already spent a year in
Alaska, and is anxious to brave the
cold and rigors of another winter in
that inhospitable climate to be with
her husband. She had a determined
way about her, characteristic of a true
Chicago woman. when she said: 'I
am bound to go, although my many
friends endeaVored to persuade me not
to. and l am sure we will get through
all right" To G. o b reporter Mrs.
Gage said:
I made up my mind to be with my
husband this winter, although know
it will not be all smooth sailing from
the coast to the Klondike district at
this time Of the year, and I appre-
ciate the fact that there will be some
danger, but our party will be provid-
ed for as well as any Alaskan trav-
'elers can be, and I feel that we shall
reach Dawson City in safety. You
see, If we did not start right away.
it would be impossible for us to get
cut there until next July, and 1 must
join my husband before that time. T
know something about the 40 degrees
below zero weather they have out
there, for l was in Alaska last year.
I left our little boy, who is only four
teen months old. with my parents in
Chicago-Mr. and Mrs. P. B. Weare~-
so 1 know he will be all right. There
was big crowd at the depot in Chi
cago last night to see us start. and
my friends endeavored to get me to
change my mind at the last moment
and stay at home, but 1 would not do
it. I guess I am the first Chicago wo-
man to go to the Klondike''
OF the others in the party, Messrs.
Cone, Atwood and Rex Beach are
members of the Chicago Athletic club
and are going out for lark as much
as anything else, although they may
go into business there if they see a
good opening. II. L. Beach has been
connected with the Chicago Record
for some years, and with Messrs. Will
son and Koffenbergh will do a littla
prospecting, and they have sufficient
capital back of them to in
vest, if they run across anything
promising. Mr. Ulrich is a son-in-
law of one of the Studebakers of
South Bend, Ind, and he has practi-
cally the same object. The party may
be Joined before leaving Seattle by
W. w. Weare, Of the Weare Transpor-
tation company.
The party will sail from Seattle on
Aug. % on the steamer Queen for
Healey's store, near Dyea, where they
will be met by representatives of the
Weare Transportation company and
will proceed along the passes to the
Yukon. They expect to get to Daw-
son City by Oct. Is. They go with a
supply of the best that money can buy,
but their baggage will not average
over 5G0 nn1Ipds yxyaiuht oooI,