The San Francisco call., 1897-10-25

days there picking up information about
| the Dalton trail On September Is they
started from Fort Selkrk with about
thirty pound. of provisions each and
without blankets to come the several hun
dred miles to tide wafer. Fred Trippe had
shawl and Julian Trippe narrow rab.
bit-skin robe. which was just long enough
| to leave his feet exposed to the wea her
when he lay down at night. They did
not want to exert themselves carving
blankets. All went well ;lll they lett Five
Finger Rapids. AT the ra pids their grub
was nearly gone, but thev met a party Of
Chicago bows bound for Dawson, who in
v.ted them into their tent and gave them
their breakfast. Julian Trippe once worked
for \. w. Harris & Co., bankers and brok-
ers on La Sale street. Chicago.
He found tnat one of the young men
was an employe of the same house. An
incidental mention of the name of Man
ager Farr hrnu ht about this and the
breakfast With only a few pounds o.
provisions they started inland. Two days
out they met packtrain. From a man
who pretended to be a surveyor the
Trippes obtained a sort of chart of the
trail. had this man been a surveyor or
had the map Deen correct or had the
Trippes not been tripped up and ost Oh
the trail, they might not have encoun-
tered the subsequent suffering. Tuey
blame it all on the chart. The first day
ont they had eaten all their food, and he
second day it snowel so fast and furious
they could not see the mountains. All
day and part of the night they Travelled
r;,l,
Curled around small fire they Law down
hungry and arose hungry in the morn.
ing-such hunger as only protracted ply
sical exercise and severe cold could pro-
duce. They did not reckon on the snow
and cold. 1t had been fine weather all
summer. They still stun bled on through
the snow. The third day. in the morn
ing, tle other me m bers of the whole party
before mentioned caught up with them
They had little grub and it was di-
vided as long as it lasted. Three days
later the whole party ran out OF food. and
it was still showing. TIE trail at this
time became an Indian trail, between
which and the white mans trail there is
a vast difference. The red man snaps off
or breaks down twig or limp of tree
here. there ard yonder to mark the
course. The snow soon became deep
enough to hide these marks.
Then the party was without both food
and trail. Every man became weaker
each passing hour. Gillis and Dugas
walked in circles to lind the trail, and
after nearly half days travelling picked
1t up again. Again, hungry and weak,
they p!odded on and finally saw smoke
rising from a shack on the banks oi
Lake Hootc ie-Eye. From the Indian oc-
cupant they obtained two and a half fish
each. Being grea. ly refreshed the ira
was taken up again. At a point on the
divide where the art showed Dalton
post Is located they could not see or find
the post. They concluded that they had
either passed the post or were off the trail
A DAY was spent wandering through the
valley searching for the post 1t was
showing SO thick aud fast that a man
could not be Sc n 200 feet ahead. Return
to camp on the evening of that day was
the only alternative. Ali were yery weak.
Said Julian Trippe: Our legs shook
and we could hardly stand. We simply
staggered. 1t was easier to stagger on