The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-28

Forces "i
Have 'l'""'"
Others Have Np"h"e" "'uFr
ChaSms. Hut for h"pl"it' Oh '""-
struction in the Dead OF Are''e
winter. over an Almost insur-
.,.,.,nt,I,Ie Mountain Range. the
,.., u,it,-o,
" INC i"-N
VIII Ever Hold tohSpic""us
tnrnce
o 1-o octb da,y
Ne" f"A aus.
OF Nav 1898, less IMAM one year nom
tha date of thiS sketch. the approaches
,. ,re Rybffe Pass of the Chicat noun
...,.+.., i,..;,.. ,.,i,,,.tt.,,l chaos and
ldl"9 P' ''' 49,. ..,,.5,ss. line
silence. over "H 100 yam '
OF dumb determined argonauts piodded
teeir weary way.
~ s--t, .f,tt,t month the silence Of
0N VIC -''-' --,- ,.,,,. ..,,,,l, under
ages "oh'' tH' -
the explosion OF tons OF grant P'"'i'''
and 900 laborere armed with bar ana par
avn and a,nap,te. pushed out from
nm c,naI leaving
'"9 u. '' MI. ,,,a1,e
two SHINING HitS "i S'''' az
Other railroads have conquered greater
bi.b,s others have spanned wider chasms;
.,. 80 .,,.+r,,.tir,, in rho
dead OF an Arctc WINTER oEel d" "i-i'9''
insurmountahie mountain range, the
Whit. Pass and Yukon Railway must ever
80 ia ,,,r.,,i,,,o,,s ,,re-eroinence
.,,....-,,. ,,>,,7,7e3
AT mrs. the "ls'"'l'7 Siii'i'i7'S
their heads and whispered 9cheihe'
Skaguay has seen her best days ana lhele
are town lots Tor sale As thS grace lleal
Cd the granite wall "a mle hish' anu tnt
SHOWS hlled every cut ana canyon even
the hardy packers s2ld thdl tHe to,t-
strucuon gang must surrey ne up uH''.
SPRING but the indomtaple oilceIS auu
engineers OF TINS plucky fodd were no.
built on that plan. overcoming every on
stacle IN the race OF supposed lhnp"99iol
ties, from ten 20 tortN ieet ol sno" "d9
removed, the roadpea He"n from ,ie Siaii-
lite cilfts, ana tlalh puled sauaHly 10
the summit twenty ana tour-leh'hs hliles
from. ana -e'p ieet ABOVE ,He s'di 'li5
point IN less lhah nine months rom tHe
Gay Wheh the lliSl me peg was uiiESH.
IN the spring OF Ia7' year / Ie9l'Tu' - >,
n. Graves arrived III Ne" olN. "a ms
vest pocket =" 70 Sl''dh. ie ca iiS" nv
sole possession OF thls Arc'lS 'not ousH-
ldie' VIZ NHdi tei9 IL ON Il1 i-ii7'i9H 5Ot
eminent granting Ii-hl OF way oFyr I,Il1-
ish territory. from point near Lake Sen
- 49,, ,,r,r,ts{ Ia. mo 1-nt5od States
government over the strip of American
territory lying between the sea and the
Internal ional boundary line. Armed with
these documents. Mr.. Graves started for
Alaska. arriving in April. 1t seems IN
credible that i'm so short a space OF time
immense quantities of railroad material
could have been purchased and shipped
three-fourths of the way from New York
to the North Pole. and that the same
weeks should witness the discovery and
association of as splendid a corps of civil
engineers as ever sighted a sextant or
fact
When one has Travelled these stubborn-
" contested miles In the omen cab of a
locomotive. shot around comDound curves.
dashed through snow drifts into tunnels
and ONT agatn unon slender bridges. hung
upon narrow benches-mere inches In The
perDendicular. babe defiance to glacier
rnoratna ana avalanche ana then stood
unon the summit Of White Pass in the
teeth Of q bowling blizzard one foreets
the caDitalist i'm his velvet-,arDeted Of
fec even The nraeident in his nrivata car
ana turns vim fronlt adnniration to me
little hand Of rer,,v l,een-vyftted fellows
tbe coretr,iction onaIneere who ,,,ith
tbair . 0ao MN bo,a de6ed ana copouar
Cd Inc allied force Of Ol,-,r-,,s ond TacL
Frost
h"iu rum '"e firSt'
The general name covering the whole
system is the White Pass and Yukor
Route but this is merely a caption, and
covers three distinct charters. From
Skaguay TO the international boundary
line tWenty-eisht miles, the road win b,
officially known as the Pacific and Arcti
Railway ana Navigation Company tn,
majority of this stock is held by Amerl
cans or at least IN the names of Ameri
cans The next division. which Is nov
under rapid construction. crosses British
Columbia and is TO be called the British