The San Francisco call., 1897-07-29
TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE SAW
HER LEAVE.
The Romance of the Yukon Clothed the
Hundred and Twelve = Letters
and Opinions on the
KIondyke.

then he was vaguely ready for the rustling
ahead.
Edward Holland. proprietor OF the Com
merciai Hotel, got aboard thirty boInd
monthly volumes of local dailies to be
free reading at stores, hotels and saloons
on the Klondyke. Some boxes of
fruit marked keep cool" were
added to the deck piles and the
donkey engine at the bow kept jerking
big slingfus of bundles, trunks and boxes
high in The air and deep in the hold. The
| boy with two uncles with a $4,000 a day
| saloon a Dawson was all right.
The crowd grew to 1000 or so by II A. NJ,
when some customs searchers found fifty
gallons of smugg ed whisky in the hold
and the confscation of it began. 1t had
been smuggled in by some OF the crew
without the knowledge of the company
{ with view to a fine speculation. 1t isss q
violation of the Revised Statutes to take
any whisky into Alaska without a permit
from the Governor thereof who lets a
very little in ''fo- medicinal use" So the
whisky went 10 the Appraisers building
and Inspectors johnson and Hills guarded
the ships side thereafter.
Noon. and 4Q00 people, Oue O'clock.
and 1000 more. The Excelsior was to sail
at 2:3o and the crowd was growing. Cap
tain Dunleavy sent for more and m ore
policemen, and for time gangway to the
gangplank and open spaces for baggage
by The ships side were preserved.
The passengers began to arrive in num-
bers, and The scene began to be intense as
the hustle and the people increased.
Every body who knew anybody aboard
wanted to get UP the gangplank to say
good-by and the policeman and the stout
deckhand at the loot of the gangplank had
an awful time.
1t was a remarkable mixture on deck
and shore. Millionaires and gaily-dressed
women jostled broken-down miners.
greasy laborer5 and buns all through
that great human throng. On board were
men of culture, name and character, and
every range OF mankind that with
various purposes in view could rus
tie a stake for the Klondyke. They
became fellows for the gold rush" The
deck became crowded when most of the
passengers were aboard, for many friends
of favored ones managed to get aboard for
the goCd-by. The ninety-two cabin pas
sengers made brief visits TO the nice
saloons and their quite comfortable
berths, and came on deck to see the ex-
citement.
The sense of the parting hour came an
hour before leaving, when Captain Hlg-
gins went to the bridge and gave two warn
Ing whistle blasts, and then the un 0idden
tears began TO start from many eyes and
throats became Iumpy. Wives and sisters
here and there seemed To display
woman's intuition that the future would
not be all bright. young fellow of the
steerage kissed three good-by and didn't
speak. Many dove into corners to hide
the tears ana some in lighter mood would
laugh TO fee away
A. T. Hatch, the famous fruitgrower,
struggled through the seething mass to
the gangplank to go, hale, gray-bearded
man, to retrieve fortune. Some of his
friends passed up to him a silken flag,
and about the staff was bouquet of carna-
tions. He joined crowd that climbed to
one Of the boats which hung from its