The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-24
SCHOONER CONCORD
FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE.
LADDERS Reaches Seattle After
six Months Voyage,


SIX Months Voyage.
The schooner Concord. Capt. Mcleod. ar
rived in the bay a, s O'Clock last night. Isl
days out from Portsmouth. y. Fl. she had
on board twenty members Of the Ports
mouth Yukon Gold Mining Company. = CO
operative concern composed CT residents %
Rockingham county, New Hampshire.
formed for the purpose o. working out gold
Ia the fields OF Alaska. share and share
alike. the expenses being borne in a like
manner The ether afteen members OF the
party viii start from Portsmouth as soon
ar they receive a telegram sent East by
Vice President Strong last night, ANNOUNCE
ing tae safe arrival of the Concord in port
AZ Seattle. The company has not Yet been
Incorporated. but Mr.. Strong said 20
Post-InfelIigencer reporter last night that
f. probably would be before the party
started for the north.
In Just what part Of Alaska the party viii
carry on their operations has not yet been
decided. Copper river was the original des-
tination. but lately the Yukon district has
been considered and one OF the party even
intlmated that the search for god might
eventually lead them az far as Boring sea.
There is now on the way 10 Seattle a Ss~
foot steam launch. built solid. which will
be used by the New Engianders for side ex-
petitions aftey they have made port some
where In the north. The launch Is expected
TO arrive tomorrow or Thursday. All the
working implements for the party have
been brought along on the Concord but ths
individual outfits are TO be purchased here
In Seattle the company believing that they
can be procured in this city at a much less
cost than In the East.
The Concord weighed anchor at Ports
mouth December H. 1887. Her voyage 10
the Straits OF Magellan was unusually pros
porous no weather being encountered %
delay the passage. But after entering the
Straits her troubles began. She was thirty
days In coming thfougb--a distance OF ai5
miles. Head winds were met daily. and the
frequent gales were 80 heavy that IL was
sometimes necessary TO anchor under lee of
q protecting Island for days at a time. MIR.
Strong said:
Coming up the coast OF South America
We caught the pamperos from Off the Chill
can coast. Those winds are wicked. They
are vicious. They strike you head on Or
under the quarter, and unless you tumble
out and do some mighty quick navigating
you are not IN she reckoning. They toyed
with US more or less the whole way up
the coast and greatly delayed our pas
sage. Altogether, though, IL was a re-
markedly pleasant and interesting voyage.
Speaking of those same pamperos, We went
ashore one day in the ne!ghborhood of the
straits. We found ourselves on a pampas.
which Is Simply Spanish for great plain
1t was n the rainy season. the season Of
storms. and We were treated TO wonder
fu sight before We left. One of those
sudden storms which are so common on
the South American coast during that time
OF the year came UP almost without warn
Ing In moment the whole sky turned
black, so that objects only a short distance
away were completely hid from sight.
Presently the lightning began 20 play. the
winds blew from all around the CONF pass
at once and the rain beat in a deluge.
Then the scene came. With sort Of
shudder.ng. convulsye movement the
lightning started from a point due ahead
OF Us and ran like a chain OF iiyid fire
clear round the horizon, turning the black
ness into day. making Il So light that
yea could have read sign on the ship a
mile or two off the shore. II was one
continuous stream Of dancing. jerking
light. flowing over all the heavens for five
minutes at a time. IT was the most wcn-
derful sight 1 have ever seen.
while lying In the straits We boarded
a Chilean man-of-war and there. from the
jargon-Engiish OF the crew. first learned
Of tho destruction Of the Maine in the har-
Dor Of Havana and the loss Of the gal
argued that the United States would prob
ably take the matter up in a way that
might lead 10 war but ;he first intima,ion
we had that war was on between this
government and Spaia was when we
boarded the ship Putnam few miles out
from Port Townsend. Il was big news. /
tell you.''
The members % the party are as follows:
]. II. Hart. president. George f. Strong
vice president. ~ Warner street, Glouces-
ter. Mass; Il, T. Brown. treasurer: Or. r.
II Sargent. secretary. Kittery. Me: f. II
Mcleod. captain, Pictou. \. :: j. 8
iiubiey. first mate. Gate street: Albert Al
herts. second mate. 4s Daniels street Ports
mouth. y. H. Robert ii. Dexter. cook. .
Warner street. Gloucester. Mass George
r. Bates. 81 Water street, Portsmouth. "
II John Remck, Kittery Me. J Il Card.
kittery. Me: Edward Nelson. las Rro9i;
street, BTcokiine, Mass. IoAa \ Williams
Portsmouth. \. H, William p.inran
Portsmouth. y. IL; Stanley + Lutte. Rut-
land street. Walden: James SCOTS. Pop
lar street. Maiden. Mass Charles s But
teFs. Hamilton. Mass; Walter J. Lewis
Milton. \ IL: George < Scott. - Farweu
street West Newton. Mass: John f.
Matthews s25 East Fourth street. South
Boston. Mass,