The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-17
JLONDIKE BOAT IS OFF.
fEBT Q OF 90 WOMEN TOOK THEIR
pURAGE IN MORN HANDS AND WENT.

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er . Purpose t. 60 for coid-Library OF
$500 Books on Beard for the Th,rty-
tive PassenEers. Most or whom Rxpect
lee Travel No o psnes on the ship.
YootinG whistles, waving handkerchief, and
Outs OF "Good.by'' and "Good lucki" from
crowd on Pier 20, North River, babe faro.
Ore to the steamship City of Columbia, which
1lsd yesterday afternoon with a load Of gold
Hkers bound for the Klondike country. OF tho
% passengers, which was the number at first
Ynouuced, just SO appeared yesterday at tho
pr, and one Of those came only to got his bag
ige and retro from the project with frantic
tste. Mrs. Hannah Gould. who was to have
fed as guide, preceptress. chaperon, and gen.
VI good angel TO forty cooks, nurses. and
tmen prospectors, who intended bursting upon
Klondike In a blaze OF glory and denim
fckerbockers, found her number reduced to
kht In one respect, however, she lived nobly
to her prospectus, In which It had boon an
Aunced that no woman under "a would DO al
4ved In the party. There wasn't one among
bwomon Klondikors who wasn't twenty good
4ars on the safe side. Maybe the rest of tho
Forty were weighed in the balance and found
wanting in years.
Crowds visited the City of Columbia all tho
morning and afternoon up to $3.50. the time of
sailing. They found her a seaworthy looking
vessel, comfortably fitted up, but In the most
amazing confusion. bundles. baskets, trunks,
bales, ~satchels, grips. packages. and the thou.
eend and one paraphernalia Of travel scattered
bout everywhere, while bawling stevedores
ldded to the mess by contributing q continuous
urrent Of newly arrived baggage. When tho
infusion was at Its height a wild.eyed man gal.
5ped up the gangplank shouting for the Cap.
tain.
"I want to get off. he shouted. "I want to
70 away. No Klondike In mine. Gimme my
baggage"
One OF tho officers took him to tho dining sa-
ion, where he grabbed a huge grip, a shawl
trap. and q bundle, and fed from the ship as IL
40 expected to be captured and put in irons for
Edesertion.
whats your name y somebody called to him
as he reached the pier.
"Never you mind" he shouted back. "Ill
ever go on any Yukon gold claim. This
b~untry's good enough for me-"
Opinion was divided among the others as to
whether the deserter had suddenly fallen heir
to n fortune hero or had simply lost heart.
Among those who stuck to the ship not a few
rad q hard struggle to keep up their spirits.
m the misery-loves-company principle, about a
'o3en of these gathered in the saloon a round
,veral bottles of champagne. and. having pre-
lously ligheened their Spirits by a liberal
Sc of this beverage, proceeded to cheer each
ther along with a song specially provided for
stanza OF it which THE sun reporter heard was
rendered as follows:
oh, hurrah Tsninl for the Klon r%snufIe1 dikei
u That's the suppressed 9 ,bl place for [snortl mel
"TRIP !snrsls1 on the ocean lquaverl
Then came q long pause. during which there
was Q general use of handkerohiefs, followed by
The chorus:
The w HiGsa IasoE !.9G'rt a.,s snS Klondit' l'nunl' its
Hurrah Jsobl for the Kion Isurslel dixie and lin die
. away tonesI shtterius gold!
AT the conclusion everybody wept bitterly on
is neighbours shoulder until all had recovered
enough for a repetition of the enlivening ballad:
e pair Of eyes at a crack OF the window
"w Ihatt said a a low s voice inside How soon
Hall an hour, replied the reporter. AREN'T
gen son y t out to m see he 3 last ..;s Of III III, =, III.
Ees on board At an without getting caught:
Never mind; when m | strike god III pay oil my
Toa the starboard rail leaned an elderly man
A,ystander. you'll DO coming back rich in a
NO. I won't. faint going said the mourn
:":M TRst!. s Ts you aa making isfs 50 s sISts thu up n iHri ts s 8 he
dropped his head in his hands.
r1 In lo s1S.hs so sp9s at as . Iir 1ns rail sioD St0Gd a DaHSen'
S's sou. ,S%P and land on that. even after the
you amt going to try It, are your asked an
SNo. 1 ain't," said the passenger. I'm here
md Pm going to stay here. but reckon when
she whistle sounds to start ri go into my cabin
rs : set ter rlfiSlE e sS@p "a Sn S0 he s saf a;D St6 6ai
Tighter lying there SO Close"
william sulzer. He was wandering around
boxing at everything with interest when an
lebriated person who, as he informed the pub
? had inst said ROOd-ly to all the friends of
his ehildhood; spied the ob9llient statesman;
'No s%lr' friend q s SdGi'i tn &londl faRt 4td B BiiI.
1s heart-hic-is wrung wiz anguish"
IWhafIer 2 cried the other growing orator.
h, "whs's he gSin' forf Torahie.g9Id
his Country It one sWoop. on. Bihi'
He was preparing more eloquence when Capt.
Fan ashorei Everybody not going to the
There was a general hustle for the pier and a
tsh for the end of the dock. but just then the
Id tied up across the end. completely blocking
10 view there. so that the friends Of the depart
K aaT aesnin MsrG At f fSe side to sa 4 Ssls alo n h thf
hour followed. Then the tugs In attendance
koted their whistles, the boats ont In the river
lrth at $3.50 only twenty minutes later than
10 time set for tho departure. AS she moved
ong parallel 10 the pier the crowd shouted all
t'Bring me back a nugget"
tGood luck to you. Hope you strike gold"
Come back a millionaire. need a couple of
hundred thousand myself"
t"Remember to keep your throat wrapped up.
w boy" Quavcred out n little old woman who
Id been waving frantically at Il young man
ear the bow; "Yon catch cold so easy"
ek!' shouted everybody on the pier, and the
Sswering calls OF those on the boat died away
she swung out into the stream.
NE City Of Columbia is under the command OF
Pt. r. c. Baker. who Is noted as commander
1.-THE Brazilian dynamite cruiser .Sictheroy,
It'll him are Commander Garrett
Iderstine. late of the BRAZILIAN Navy, as
1t officer. and b. T.. Howell as steward. The
fsenger list, as given out yesterday was as
lows. The name of the deserter was not
ged. and 1t didn't appear that Mrs. Gould
ut:
hme ard Residence. Destination.
y. Adams, New York City.
&elly, New York ............ Dawson City.
20 Dthns, New York ~. ........... Dawson City.
j y. X. Travis. HGbokcn ........... Dawson City.
j Franris hell, New York -. zee. DhTson City.
IL A Y PnHIridnn L nn.nll aaa GIrnln City