The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-13

tain of the Power, who, between orders.
incident to the taking out of the dam
aged rudder, declared that he would
yet beat that Irishman to ST. Michaels,
and every one was anxious to see how
well he would keep his word. 1t took
three hours to take out the rudder
and examine the remaining three
which were all right, and. with them
the run down the river was made. The
Power started after the Cudahy, and
without incident came in sight Of her
taking on wood at Fort Yukon. Cap
tain Ingram of the Power made a very
short visit at Fort Yukon and started
after the Cudahy which had a fresh
supply of wood, and was three miles
ahead down the river. And the chase
started now in earnest, and was con-
tinued for a few hours, but the pilots
on the Cudahy best understood the
Yukon flats, and they finally got out
of sight for thai day, but all means
were used to make as good time as
possible, and about 9 o'clock the next
day the Cudahy was again sighted, and
the chase commenced to get interest
ing.
Each boat was burning so cords of
wood in the "a hours as they ran night
and day, the daylight continuing dur
it was necessary to wood up as they
called it. But on this day, when the
Cudahy was sighted. both boats had
a good supply of wood and the river
had narrowed and the navigation was
good. About noon the distance was
lessened between the boats and each
was making 20 miles an hour The
steam guage on the Power was contin-
ually showing lis pounds pressure and
the boilers. though new, were said to
not be safe over 10, and the passen-
gers would walk up on the bow and
take look at the pursued, then take
look at the steam guage, and then
start for the other end of the boat.
The firemen on each boat by this time
had been promised extra pay and
were piling in the wood at the rate
of two and a half cords to the hour,
and on the Power at three in the aft
ernoon the guage showed $50 and the
Cudahy pulled alongside of the boat
that had carried the broom the year
before, and according to the usage
and legal requirements, two blasts of
the whistles were blown and the beat
en- boat was compelled to acknowl-
edge the beating by an answering blast,
and then the crew and passengers on
the Power. who had been taking a
deep interest in the race, turned them
selves loose and yelled until they &c
some threw lines toward t,
calling to the passengers OF a, lat
to catch on and Wen give yo,. Ct, ,ow,'
while a deck hand found a broom,
climbed high on the pilot house and
waved it in triumph.
AT 6 o'clock the Cudahy was a mile
astern, and the Power. sighting a fine
large pile of dry looking cordwood.
swung around with her nose up stream
and sidled ashore to tie up for another
30 cords of wood. In three minutes the
Cudahy came rushing by and then.
for the first time, the passengers and
crew gave few yells in token of their
relief that they were in the race, but
they shortly pulled in for wood and
We're soon passed again, while still at
the wood pile, but resumed her place"
about a mile astern, and so the. chase
continued all that night and the next
day, until at 6 o'clock on the evening
of July 4, the Power showed her nose
into the salt water of the Boring sea
and started to make the 50-mile run
out to St. Michael island, but as the
tide was out, she went aground and
was compelled to wait for a high tide.
In the meantime the Cudahy hove in
sight and went aground three or four
miles up the river, the tide effecting
the river for many miles. and they. too.
were waiting for tide and determined
to make final race through the salt
water.
with the coming of the tide there
came a dense fog, and it was 9 o'clock
the next morning before the captain of
the Power dared move his river craft
in the foggy sea, and when the fog
lifted little start was made, but no.
where was to be seen the Cudahy,
many guessing that she had slipped
past in the fog. and much was the
anxiety until rounding a point on St.
Michaels island and coming in sight of
the great warehouses of the N. A. T.
6, T. Co., the Cudahy was seen snugly
tied to the wharf, and what was worse
still, the custom house officers had not
as yet allowed those 200 passengers
to land. Did they see us? Well, yes.
We pulled up to that wharf amid the
worst storm of yells I ever heard, and
when the yelling would subside a little
some one. with leathern lungs would
bawl out and ask us If we had a nav
igator on board that craft, and then.
unconsciously. almost every one would
look at the poor captain. Well, I at
first pitied him, but l thought of that
dog he threw in the river, and / sup
pose if the crew and passengers of the
Cudahy had known of the act they
would have made it still more interest
ing for him. But the laugh was on us,
and after they had sufficiently punish
ed us for the beating two days before
they climbed over the sides and wanted
to know how it was done"