The San Francisco call., 1897-07-29
TIE SEATTLE RUSH.
One Thousand and Odd Have Gone
North and Hundreds Are
Booked for Passage.

North and Hundreds Are
Booked for Passage.
SEATTLE, WASH, July 28.-Since the
Portland arrived with the first real tan
gible news of the rich discoveries in the
klondyke steamers have left Seattle for
the new goldfeids with passengers as fol-
lows:
The Al-Ki left July 10 for Dyea carrying
100 passengers from Seattle bound for the
Krondyke, Of whom seven were women.
The Portland left July % having 81 pas
sengers from Seattle bound for st. MI
chaels at the mouth of the Yukon. OF
these IA were women.
The Queen lett for Dyea July % with
13l Seattle passengers, including one
woman.
The Mexico left July 25 with 22S Seattle
passengers tor Dyea and Skaguay, of
whom four were women.
The Topeka left to-day with 40 passen-
gers bound for the goIdtields, OF whom
tour were women. The Topeka goes no
further than Juneau, which is the reason
for her light list.
In addition to this 1876 passengers, in
Guiding three women, have gone from Sc
attic 10 take passage on the steamer ISL
ander, which left Victoria to-day for Dyea.
This makes a total of 1920 persons, in
cluding thirty-six women, who have left
Seattle for the various routes to the KIon-
dyke since the first news OF the strikes was
received in this city one week ago last
Saturday. OF these without exception all
save the passengers by the steamer Port
land carried with them good and full out
with less than one years supply of pro-
visions. Every steamer except the Port
land allowed each passenger 1900 pounds
of baggage, and few came within that
limit.
The Portland, bound for ST. Michaels,
refused TO allow the eighty seven passen-
gers who booked at this place to take mora
than $50 pounds of baggage each and Wig
orously excluded from the list OF baggage
everything in the nature of provisions and
hard ware. AT the same time the North
American Trading and Transportation
Company CONTRACTED with each passenger
10 furnish him all necessary supplies from
any one OF their trading ports at Seattle
prices, with freight added.
On the steamers yet to leave the book
ings so far are as follows: Rosaiie, July
81, $50 passengers; AK, August 2 $50;
Willamette, August 4, 700; Cleveland,
August 5. $50; Eliza Anderson, August 6,
100.
Of these, all except the Cleveland and
the Eliza Anderson go TO Dyea. The two
latter are bound for ST. Michaels where
they will connect with river steamers. On
the Cleveland, like the Portland, no
freight will be carried fo1 passengers. On
the other steamers all who have booked
have also engaged space for full outfits.
So far it is not known that one singh
man has taken passage for Dyea on any
OF the steamers who is unprovided with
fair outfit of provisions. This is mat
ter of general comment among the old
residents of the coast, who have seen
mining rushes since 1S49, and have wit
messed men starting on such rush with
a pocketful of crackers and cheese, but
otherwise unprovided. Those who have
gone from Seattle to man are men who
have been holding good positions and
who have saved some little money which
they are now proceeding to risk on a
gamble for a stake.
The round trip to Dyea can be made in
from twelve TO fourteen days. The Al-Ki
the slowest vesse! of these named, also left
July 10 and leaves again August 2. From
that date on, with the present number of
steamers on the route, there will be one
10 leave Seattle every other day Tor Dyea