The daily morning Alaskan., 1899-12-19
New Skagway-Sound Flyer
 Being Built East
ANOTHER SHIP ADDED
Alaska Steamship Company Co Put on n FFeIghter at once, and have n swift Carrier in June.


 operating the steamers Rosalle and Drigo, will increase It's Skagwav.Puget sound fleet January I by the addition of the steamer Utopia or the steamer Townsend. both we'll known on the coast.
 Next June the company will add to It's fleet a crack passenger and freighter. planned to outstrlp any craft ever on the run, and being built especially for this trade. The announcement of these addi- lions Is made by frank E. Burns, general agent in SkagwaY fur the company and manager for the related White Horse Tram way Company, who has recently returned from a visit of several weeks 10 the sound
 Mr. Burns also announces that the White Horse tramway people, for whom he has been manager, are figuring on the eonstrre- tion of usrrow gauge railroad five miles long around Miles canyon and White Horse rapids, to he reidv for business next season. He says that with the old tram way the services of 10 men have been re- qulrsd during the busy season, but that with the proposed new equipment, inelud- ing a locomotive and several cars, four men should do all the work. The feeding of horses was quite an expense under the old system.
 Mir. Burns says the notice of application published in the Bennett Sun for a fran thlse around White Horse is not from his company, but, he understands, the Vic toria-YukOn Trading Company is back of 1t.
 "The flyer which we are to add to the Skagway.Sound run," says MT. Burns, "is being built on the Atlantic coast under the direction of Walter Olkes, president, and George Lent, another member of the com panv and formerly chief engineer of the Dlrigo. The ship is to be a twin screw, ripple expansion craft. She will have ae- eommodations fer 2so passengers and Zoe { ms of freight, and will enter the trade to compete with the fastest corners. The neetest craft on the run today makes IA knots. Our craft will make IS knots. She is being constructed with an eve to having her especially adapted to the Sound Skagwav run. The saloon will sweep from stem to stern and be surrounded by the cabins, which will be so arranged that one door will open from each room into the saloon and one on the promenade deek' sweeping about the outer part of the ship She will be practically the same as the City of Seattle on the passenger deck, with the exception of the room for the promenade all around the outside and the addition of doors opening to the outside.
 "The main deck will be arranged for the convenient arranging of cattle as we'll as freight The hull of the crait will be large on the oval, thus afordIng greater freight space than found in the sharpe' bottom, and allowing the vessel to sil higher in the water. The important necessity of twins screws is obvious.
 "We have found It necessary 10 add the Utopia or the Townsend to our fleet right away for the reason we need mort freighters.
 "Nome does not seem to be talked SC much in Seattle as In Skagwsy. It Is mol true that all the first class commodatlon' of the first fleet that Is to sail from Seattle in the spring are sold. There are man' berths, in my observation, to be obtained The Pacific Coast Steamship company which is to send three steamers to Nome has not sold a ticket in its uptown oftie at Seattle for any of the craft
 "However, 1t Is estimated 3s,ooo peopl will go to Nome, or can be carried there b three trips each of the fleet to go in tn trade.
 "The Skagwav-Yukon route will do share of the Nome business, and unde stand the traffic manager of the Whit
 Pass & Yukon road Is negotiating wit river steamermen and others with a vie' of getting through rate established bc tween Seattle and Nome by way of u Yukon river. dJ not know what u rate Is likely to be-"
 Mr. Burns, during the summer, devote . his time exclusively to the manageme'
 of the tramway, having at lhe opening
 the ,eeson left the agency of the Alasl
 Steamship company in the hands of N.
 Chatham. Now that Mt. Burns has - turned, MT. Chetham will return to Il Il Sound. He and Mrs. Chetham will 2 ! I... N.I