The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1897-11-19
THE WOMEN KLoND|KERs.
A PARTY OF THIRTY TO START
OUT IN DECEMBER.
W~hatnThey will Take With Them
andaHoW They will be Dressed--
They Go Fully Prepared For the
Rough Life.

When the big steamer City of Column
pla steams out to sea on December I
she will have aboard the first exnedi-
ton OF women klOndikers eaving New
York. AVN"
Some people have no patience with
Women klondikers." But read this,
ye Wlseacres who shake your heads
sase.y and call all such expeditions
fools errands for this is the true
story of the first actual feminine stam-
pede for the fabulous fortunes of the
frozen north.
me women are all as bent on going
as II bags of gold were ranging on
Der thirty. 1'N
Mrs: Hannah f. Gould of No. 220 West
IWenty-second street has had the idea
or going to KlOndike in mind for some
months. Sc a been preparing for the
voyage nearly three months. AT first,
she and her unmarried daughters We're
gong alone. In a few weeks they were
besieged by women who wanted to make
a party and go along.
Inc earnest purpose and the high
CHARACTER or the women BODIES we'll for
the success of the expedition. They are
all women of intelligence, of self-reli-
ance, and of well thought out ideas of
Whatt hey propose to do and how to co
II. Some OF them have been in business
ana some nave been employed as work.
ers on salaries. Some of them nave
means. NO women now in the klOndike
or about to go there are better equipped
TO carve their way to success in the
rugged Arctic land.
Inc Sunday Journal tells for the first
time all about the expedition, what the
women argonauts will take with them.
ana what they will do after they get to
the Klondike.
You ask what these women are going
FOR? For riches, they will tell you. You
tell them it is a life of %priyatiOn and
hardship. They know this and expect
1t. EVERY one goes fully prepared for
roushlng it. Their winter outfits are
complete and ready to be packed, their
store Of provisions. likewise. Every
thing will be taken from New York.
FoT the comfort of her party, Mrs.
Gould has purchased the entire saloon
of the City of Columbia, which is being
htted up especially for their convent
enCe In this name the women have
oeen able to club together and go more
cheaply.
Passage to Klondike. including pro-
VISIONS and outfits, costs about $500.
This insures safe landing in Dawson
City and furnishes board and berth
aboard ship for a period of nearly six
months.
The most interesting facts in onnec-
ton with the expedition are what each
"ouIdl VIII wear ana what she Will
take in the way of food.
She is only allowed $50 pounds of
baggage. AL of this amount will nee
essarily be required for her provisions
and mining outfit. What she wears,
she will carry in a big bag in her state
room, Excess baggage will be charged
Is cents per pound.
A young woman Of the party posed
for the Sunday Journal photographs,
especially to show what tasteful, warm
and serviceable outfits the women are
taking. The pictures show exactly what
the members Of Mrs. Gould's party will
wear.
They will go aboard in regulation
travelling suits. AS soon as they arrive
in Dawson City they will put on cordu-
roy suits, consisting of short skirts and
knickerbockers, a belted jacket, a KlOn-
dixie hat and high shoes. Each woman
will have a u and p revolver, and
they will be taught how to load and
use them if that should ever be. neces-
Sary.
Even the working costume, the one
they will wear in the diggings, is at
tractive n useful. There will b. a
short skirt and Jumper of denim, a
gingham apron coming to the knees and
4 sunbonnet. This is a summer or house
dress, and will be adopted for all class
of labor. from laundry work to gold
washing. There will be no long skirts
in klondike. Each woman will be al
lowed but one dress suitable for dress
occasions. if there SHOULD be any.
For cold weather, the 'parkie" of the
native Alaskan will be adopted. This
consists Of a long coat of fur, which is
slipped on over the head like a sweater,
a pair Of long fur trousers, fur mecca
sins and peaked fur cap also the thick
est of wool or fur mittens.
In less sever weather the women will
wear short coats. skirts and boomers
of eiderdoWn. In summer when for
w or three month. it is as warm in
Alaska as it is here, denim skirts and
short waists of thin material will be the
rule. This entire outfit can be had Tor
less than $50.
The greatest care has been exercised
in the selection of provisions. Mrs.
insists that no woman shall go
with less thar three months provisions.
BY clubbing together the women have
managed to buy a sufficient supply at
the remarkably low cost of $25 each.
Here is the list:
Fifty pounds of flour, five pounds IF
sugar. ten pounds of coffee, five pounds
of tea. two pounds of yeast, two pounds
of baking powder, six cans of condensed
milk. five pounds of extract of beef, five
oats, oatmeal and hominy three pounds
of evaporated potatoes, two pounds If
salt. three pounds of corned beef, five
pounds Of dried beef, one-half pound of
and mustard, ten pounds of rice,
two pounds of bologna sausages, five
pounds of evaporated fruits. four
pounds of bacon. five pounds of beans,
one pound of soda, four cans of lard,
five pounds of %sundries, and last, but
not least. one cook book.
Most of the rag women are
going to prospect for gold. This is their