Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-10-12


This cable delay gave the Canadian
the advantage of running up very
close to the Bailey, which, after get
ting through, steamed off and put on
q good supply OF dry wood and was
soon considerable distance ahead
1t was towards evening when, at a
long stretch of the Lewis river, the
Canadian was again sighted. The pi-
lots on the boats being brothers, and
each eager to get to White Horse first,
prepared for q race. Orders were
given now to the Ba;ley's crew to use
their utmost efforts to keep ahead OF
their competitor.
1t was getting dusk. The rain was
falling lightly and the clouds above
promised dark night. The Canadian
put up her lights, two in the bow and
two in the stern. The bow lights, red
and green, could be seen far down the
river. Clouds of sparks, pouring out
of her high smokestack, assuring the
Bailey that they were out for race.
The open furnace doors sent bright
glare upon the hills and heavy timber
on each si'le Of the river. The search
light OF the Canadian was turned on
and the effect was grand in the ex-
treme.
The Bailey put up her lights and
ploughed ahead against the angry,
swift current. The night was now on.
The searchlight from our competitor
in the rear kept flashing around us.
The mountains ahead were black and
dark and forbidding. Sand bars and
rocks had to be averted, but on
plunged the Bailey. One shrill
whistle from the boat in our rear to
the wood cutters on the bank and the
Canadian pulled in for wood. She
had seventy-five passengers, and all
hands could be seen rushing the wood
on to the boat. The Bailey stopped at
the next wood camp and everybody,
passengers and crew, put on ten cords
in twenty minutes.
The Bailey was now making a su.
preme struggle and it seemed for
few seconds that the Canadian could
not pass us. The river was narrowing
and closer and closer came the boats
together. With q perfect badlam on
her decks, the sparks flying by the
millions and the engines snorting and
blowing the Bailey was being slowly
pushed on to the shore by her big an.
tagonist.
It was supreme moment requiring
q desperate move. The Bailey made
it. She turned her bow dead to star
board. There was a second of sus-
pense and then a crash and hoarse
grinding and the Bailey's guards
jumped square on top of the guards Of
her opponent and there she stuck, her
nose piercing the side and rubbing up
the planking. There the Bailey hung
and was fairly dragged along by the
Canadian. Both were still churning
ahead. the Bailey pushing to keep
from striking the left bank.
The Canadian tried to rid herself OF
her bulldog antagonist, but without
success. Clinched in this death grip
they pounded along, until widening
of the river permitted the Canadian to
make sharp turn and throw off her
antagonist from the guards. As the
Bailey dropped off she ripped off great
slabs of the planking and came near
to wrecking her antagonist.
The Bailey fell back, but did not for
an instant stop her engines. She
held her nose within ten feet of the
churning wheel of the Canadian. By
this time the wood on both was rum
ming low. The Canadian stopped at
the first pile. The Bailey passed her
and ran to the next choppers, regain
ing her lost position in the lead.
Crew and passengers of both boats
rushed on the wood, but the Bailey
took SO much that she was slightly
aground, and in showing her off ten
valuable minutes were lost, the ten
minutes that were fatal to her success.
The canadian came plowing up the
river, but the Bailey managed to push
off about three lengths ahead of her
and the old battle for place was re-
newed. The Canadian again slowly
gained, and when she got alongside,
the Bailey wheeled to starboard and
was again solidly hooked upon the
guards of the Canadian, getting her
grip little astern OF her first position.
1t was for life and death and the boats
puffed and churned while the passen-
gers frantically yelled:
"How do you like the Bailey now?"
"Pump it into her."
"Shove her into the bank"
The drift soon made it obvious that
the Bailey was being slowly pushed
into the left bank and the Canadians
stern was being swung more and more
out into the stream. The bank came
nearer. The Canadian was now head.
ing almost direct toward the bank,
and was crowding the Bailey upon the
rocky bar. One supreme effort on the
part of each and the end came. The
Canadians nose went crashing into
the rocks and driftwood and the
Bailey was thrown broadside upon the
har II vas a critical moment, The