The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-04
GAVE THE BIG CROWD A RUN.
Steamers R0an and -. Paul Rac-
cbael-The Bear starts North TO
Relieve WhaIers-The Gua dian
boe sound-:ce Out of Boring Sea.

- a special edition az the post-Tnteiu-
ssncer the eighteen grizxied miners on
board would have landed unobserved and
without the greeting they received from
the several hundred curiosity seekers WHO
crowded Ainsworth * Dunn.s wharf. The
New England was the first to arrive of
the steamer fleet sent around from the At
iantic 10 take part In the kgondike traffic.
ami she made record-hreaking trip. No
one considered her, however as a pros
~pectiye gold boat when she left for St,
Michael with two river tows on Nav 22
The water front skeptic even said she
would never reach st. Michael with her
tow.
AS soon as the Post-inteiieencer extra
Was PUT on the street yesterday and the
fact that klondikers would arrive during
the afternoon became known. the water
front became the center Of attraction
NO one knew whether the New England
would arrive at the upper end Of the front
or at the coal hunkers, so the crowd
lined up at the upper end, prepared 10
Follow her down IL necessary. 1t was ter
ribly hot out on the wharves from which
Threc-Mie point could be seen, but the
perspirng crowd waited. Soon the lit
tie two-masted tug, with clouds of black
smoke tumbing out of her funnel came
round the point. She came almost up to
schWahacher dock. and the crowd came
out on the run. Then the New Eng
land veered around to Ainsworth K Dunu's
wharf. and the crowd had another run.
The men who returned were:
I. Amber. Nanaimo.
John Ross, NaDaimo.
Albert Meakin Nanaimo
Ben Wobamk. Nanaimo
Jonn Wilson. Nanaimo
George Hepei. Nanaimo.
John Caiiihan, Nanaimo.
Mike Muller. Nanaimo
w. T. Heddle. Nanaimo
X. \. Hall. Long Beach Can
f.. Emerson San Francisco
George Merwin San Francisco,
NJ Christensen. San Francisco.
&. Ston, Durango. Col
Isaac Graham. Danviile III.
IL y. Lacey, Seattle.
r.. Nelson, California.
G. Appoid. California.
Every one OF the eighteen men carried
something heavy rs they climbed up to
the dock. for the club had no gang
plank. Most of them hid the sacks that
contained their hoard, little or great in
the heavy mackinaw coats or in their
blanket roll. One man carried Il tin can
as II Ii was filled with lead Another had
| a money box done up in Al shawl strap
All were more than happy 10 get on shore
and made at once for the hotels after
which they We're taken In tow by an en-
terprising merchant and fitted out from
! top Ia bottom. according 10 then In
diyidual tastes. One man demanded a
black cutaway no matter what II cost
while another thought that a new shirt
al heavy yellow rannel was all he needed
in the clothing line He said his over
alIs were plenty clean and would last
while longe". The latter was one OF the
richest of the lot too.
The story al the little tugs trip up and
hack Is interesting. She left here on
My - with the river steamers Rock ISL
and No. and the Rock Island Ne ?
She had fine Gather on III. long stretch
across the Pacific but spent two days in
II bay on kadlak island during a heavy
wind and laid np for six days in Chlquik
| hay. In crossing Bering SEA the tug. with
| her toWs, Was In the lce for nearly a day
| bat towed tie river boats through without
| damage. She reached 81 Michael on
/ June y Without stopping at Dutch har-
b0r.
| The sce went OF, ~ Norton sound ON
! June IT, and t1e scAoonvgs X. W Bartlett
! q. W. y atson. j. i. Leeds aud Hattie T.
! fHiliiiS tane la shortly after Their
/ trips from SEATTLE were unevrntful The
Alaska Commercial ana Canadian pacias
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