The San Francisco call., 1897-08-27
No Americans Included in the
List He Gives for "The
Call"
RUMORS THAT HE KEPT
THEM BACK.
1t Is Said He Would Permit Only
"H.s People" to Climb to
the Summit.

SEATTLE, WASH. Aug. 26.-Prince
Luigi, Duke of Abruzzi, who, with party
of distinguished Italians, accomplished
the feat OF clim bing Mount st. Elias, ar
rived in Seattle this morning and will re-
main until tomorrow, when he will start
for the East.
81 must be in Rome at the earliest pos
sible date" said the Prince to THE CALL
correspondent tonight, land will try to
make the best time possible from iow on. "
The Prince and the other Italian gen.
tlemen are greatly pleased with their sue
cess, having come half way around the
word to accomplish what others with
equal opportunities have attempted sew
eraI times before and failed. They take it
coolly, because they set out to omplis b
the undertaking with no thought OF
failure. The possibility OF such an out
come did not for a moment enter into
their calcula tions. They had many times
clim bed the lofty ranges and peaks of the
Alps, and some of the party had scaled
the nj jestic Caucasian Mountains.
The Prince does not like to be inter
viewed. Reporters don't like to interview
him. The Prince is a much greater sue
cess at mountain elm bing than he is at
talking English. One must pay close at
tention to catch what he says when he
speaks what he calls his English. To.
night, when seen by THE CALL correspond
ent. the Prince said:
There is little to say-others have said
it. We made the ascent on the northeast
side. The trip was not so difficult as l
was led to anticipate by men who had at
tempted 10 reach the summit. There is
a mistake as 10 who ascended. Say this
say that there were three distinct parties.
The first included myself, Cagni, who Is
my aid-de-camp, and two Italian guides.
The second party had for its mem bers DR..
Phillip, Vittori Selli and orr guide. The
mem bers OF the third partv were Signor
Gornella and two guides. These were all,
every one an Italian. The weather was
delightful; everything was in our ia vor. y
A story is circula ted here that while the
Prince made model leader, he gave mem
bers of the party who were not Italians to
understand that only his people should
touch the summit. The Prince paid for
the trip and he did not desire that men,
bers of any other nation should share in
the glory.
DR.. Phillip said regarding the ascent:
THE Prince made this trip to st. Elias
because the Caucasian Noun tains are no
longer new and the Himalavas are mac
cessible on account of the plague in India. -
"How do the mountains here correspond
to the Alps?"
"Well, they are much the same in gem
eral appearance-that is, in the appear
ance OF the Alps in winter. But there is
one very noticeable difference, and that is
the proportions. These noun tains are
vastly larger and grander. Peaks. gorges
and glaciers are six. eight and ten times
as large in Alaska as in the Alps. There
is more snow here, of course.
I'VE secured samples of the soil and
rocks at various places and will find out
what they are when we go home. We
found no fossils above the Hitchcock
range, however. st. Elias has no crater.
and has never been volcano. The ascent
is easy and gradual, and there are no
technical difficulties on getting to the
top. or course. after We passed the 16 000
foot altitude, we had to go slowly. with
rests every fifteen minutes on account of
the rarity of the air. The last 1000 feet
especially was very trying, but We ex-
pected 1T.
1.-The summit was Is, 100 feet high. We
stayed on the summit for some hours and
took various observations. Mr.. SeIla, the
photographer, took some excellent pho.
tographs, which he will develop after we
have got them back to Italy,"