Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-25
DEPARTURE MADE LAST NIGHT.
Compromise Finally Effected With the Steamship
Company.
Prospectors Think Worcester rlen Have Found
Easy Way to Copper River - Story of
the Troubles Now Ended.

| in which he wrote that the company
were enjoying themselves in Seattle,
and expected to sail for Disenchant-
ment bay, Feb. 10.
| President Wilkinson wrote to his fam
| lily at length upon the scenic beauties
| and the great future ahead for Seattle
! the city having made deep impression
upon their minds They had been ex-
tended every courtesy and had found
the people most hospitable. No mention
of any suit brought by the local men
against the steamship company was
made, or anything written to give
grounds for suspicion that there was
any disagreement between the two par
ties. James Wilkinson, the son of Pres
ident Wilkinson, who has charge of the
New York candy kitchen during the alb
sence Of his father, has received nc
message or telegram from Seattle in re-
gard to the development of the last
suit, and has not wired his father in re-
gard to the matter; thinking that il
worst came to worst, word would be
sent at once
| Other relatives of the members of the
party have been uneasy since the news
of the attachment was made known
and there has been considerable specu-
lation whether the company would dis
band, separate into divisions, or ulti-
The last is now found to be true. Their
present destination is Yakutat, several
hundred miles east Of Port Valdes, and
later information at Seattle and more
| recent reports as to the season on the
| copper River may have made the
change advisable, as President WiIkin-
son would allow nothing to swerve him
from his plan unless there We're the
most conclusive proof that such a
| change would be advantageous and fol-
the best interests of the members of tbe
company Yukatat, or Behring Bay. as
1t is called, is near Disenchantment bay
and the Yukatat or Mt. ST, Elias range
OF mountains skirts the coast line for
some distance north and south. IN a
nortsiefiy direction turning sharply
eastward.
| Thls route from the Yukatat bay tc
the copper River has commended itself
70 expert prospectors, and great credit
| has been extended the local cornpa.ny
in some quarters for this change. afford.
ing warmer climate and an easier
way AS soon as Yukatat bay is reached
communication will be made as well as
possible with Worcester friends to in.
form them of their progress, and then
| the full information as to the opening OF
the Copper River will be learned, and
tacts about the region Of Disenchant.
| L
A letter received Thursday by Ticket
Agent J. F. Healy from Charles Aldrich
Jr., of the Aldrich party. so-called
which followed the Worcester & North.
western Mining and Trading Company
told of an enjoyable time at Seattle
| with the intention of sailing on the 18th
for Alaska. This party goes via the Chill
koot Pass to the Stewart river, where
| they hope to locate claims, and then
visit Dawson City and the Klondike
proper.
In speaking of the Worcester & North.
/ western Mining and Trading Company
Mr.. Aldrich writes:
?H.-(ga aorlWffm oio'WST osETAOINI
THE Copper river party is still here
in Seattle, and they will be here for 1C
days or two weeks yet. They didn't have
| very good luck. Their boat went off and
| left them. Now they are laying in with
another party, and going up on a sailing
vessel or schooner. This vessel is being
repaired and put in shape, but [ don't
see how they can get it ready under two
weeks"
Ticket Agent Healy, who has been in
constant communication with the party
received no special word Thursday in
regard to the settlement that had beer
reached, and the cheerful prospects al
| last of reaching Alaska; but he expressed
| himself to a Spy man Thursday evening
| to the effect that he felt confident thai
an amicable adjustment would be made
| and that the Worcesterites would con-
| tinue their trip.