The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-18
A SEATTLE WOMAN WRITES OF
CAPE MONIES GREAT GOLD FIELDS.
Mrs. MWd {. INydhdm, wife Of Maj. Ingrahdm, Gives d True
Pen Picture Of the EdMddO Of Alaska.

NAiAASS NAdA u dIAl dft HoA.
The people OF Seattle who heard Rev.
Loyal L. Writ speak in Plymouth Con-
gregational church the last Sunday in
August will doubtless be interested in
hearing of the success of the plans as
detailed by him on that occasion. In con-
versation yesterday Rev. Mr.. Writ spoke
In the most cordial terms OF the support
given him by the citizens OF Seattle and
other Coast cities. He secured much more
material for his hospital than was at
first thought possible. There were origi-
nally I4,0p feet OF lumber. s ,0oa shingles
and an elegant assortment OF enameled
bedsteads, bed linen, medica. and hospi-
tai stores. stoves, carpets and furniture,
In all a complete equipment for hospital,
reading room and church. as was Illus
trated in the Post-Intelligencer, and cost
ing s2,lA This equipment was shipped
on the steamship Cleveland, and arrived at
anchorage in our harbor in safety. but in
lightering the vessel the barge upon which
the goods were to be sent ashore became
a total wreck. Such hospital stores as
would float were strewn along the beach
for a distance of nine miles. Rev. Mr..
Writ Immediately dispatched teams TO
gather up the w~reckage. and when the
goods in their broken. Scared and soaked
condition were handed over TO the hos
pital authorities there was over 81, 200 SAL
wage to be paid, with less han one-third
of the goods recovered. OF the seventy
hve iron bedsteads, there were but two
side rails recovered. These fioated ashore
on planks. Although greatly depressed by
the loss of such a large proportion of the
material, the projectors of the institu-
ton lost no time In converting the re-
naming lumber into a hospital as large
as the material rescued would build. The
plan as originally designed was for a
building embracing reading room, hospi-
tai and church. The reading room and
church sections were abandoned, and the
original plan for the hospital carried out,
adding an extra story. The building has
been completed three days, and Is a SUBJ
stantial and handsome structure. Rev.
Mr.. Writ has control of the institution and
has nineteen assistants. The first services
held in the structure were the funeral SER
vices of Tom Jordan. the youngest son Of
the late John T. Jordan, one OF Seattle's
most prominent pioneers. Young Jordan
was a victim of typhoid fever. having been
Ill but a week. Harry Leland. Harold
Post, George Schultz and VIII Hanna act
ed as pallbearers. The remains were fol-
lowed to the grave by c. +, Dam and
Maj. Ingraham. both intimate friends OF
the deceased and family.
9 o .
NJ OMEITES will have a reading room
during the remainder of the winter.
thanks to the valuable gift OF a struc-
ture 3sxN feet for that purpose. The read
lux WIN van ~ Nit,tS tISttth tAt
hospital, and will be under the same man
agement. The 1000 volumes and other lit
erature donated by liberal Seattleites
make a valuable nucleus for a library.
II is expected that there Will re many So
cials and mrsicaies In this building dar-
ing the winter.
The Congregational church liz the only
religious organization holding services in
Nome this winter. The Sunday school
has an enrolment OF about forty pupils.
A committee Of young men has already
been appointed to secure 4 Christmas tree.
II expects to 20 about forty miles in the
direction OF Council City to secure the
tree.
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cINCE the sailing OF the steam schooner
Albion. which was the last boat ia
leave mort. and which left on Novem-
Der Z. the hartor has been particularly
TRANQUIL. Steamers would have found ex.
collent landing for freight up to Noyem-
Der %. when the ice began 20 form along
the shore. By November "a this ice nrob.
ably extended out a mile from shore but
a north WIND on that day irove n sea
ter sojourn. There have beor many in
cidents ami accidents In connection with
the incoming Zee. Amo,g the accidents
that came near resulting fatally was the
very peculiar experience OF A Young mar
named Patterson. He had started mr. the
beach In a foat towea nv dogs bu, owing
10 tho state az tho tIae the hoat wert -
fast for the dogs and hsa "a lie en-, loose
mis- heing done pntterson 900, so,,nd
himself drifting without oar locks on, a.
soa- This occurred a cor zderania az.
tanoe IN the h.ach ana hafore M. COW
n Mons coula rs,,,yn 70 ~an,a "a .uar-n
assistance the noa, ana partsrsor -
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soa min thsv speou,tares ,tnsh ,n
h.d 10 return young p,..o,san a.
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