The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-04-28
Capt. William Moore Leaves
 To Join His Sons.
BEN MOORE REMAINS
And ExOiaims With tho Moor of Venice Nov Has the Moody old Captain Cast of His shagway Moorinxs, and Left Me Free"

The heavens wept yesterday afternoon, and every tree on the hillside back of Moore's wharf. as It swayed with the gentle breeze. dropped big tears.
 For Captain Moore was going away to Nome.
 And he went on the City Of Seattle, a vessel that over a year ago he had stlg- matlzed as "a a- old bird cage"
 As his stalwart form crossed the wharf all the tlmbers ereaked. and the piles rocked with the tide. "Thls wharf Is my ehlld," he had once declared, and they sor- rowed for the departure Of their putatlve father.
 Yes, the father of Skagway has gone, and there was no brass band to give him honor when he departed. Yet he was de- serving of all the honor this city could pay him.
 He means business when he gets to Nome. He took with him blow to cut through the tundra on the Nome beach. and a seraper to go over the bed rock, and three bushel baskets to pick up the mug gets which the seraper scratches up. He also took with him an old wagon, and a tongue that belonged to another wagon, and which, fl It could speak, would say that 1t belonged 10 somebody else. and ten sacks of harness and two horses. lt is a great outfit. That Is, for Nome.
 And what he left Is more important than what he took with him. Re left the Skag- way tOwnslte for one thing, but Ben and hls moose and his goats can be relied upon to keep the grass down on the streets until the Grand Old Man returns.
 And he thought he was leaving the lawyers. But one went before him, and one follows after him, and there can be no legal respite for him until he meets St. Peter, and has an argument with him on customs duties upon his baggage. Partle> ularly on those ten sacks of harness; for the old captain Is a man too brave to fly. and unless he can take In that harness free of duty he will go to that other bourne, the pay streak of which has never been as saved although the cost of thawlng out the gtound must be but slight
 And before he left he built. himself a mansion. roomy building with numerous windows, the formers of which are many and Immense, Then he topped the structure with pilot house, h derislon of the sky pilot on the next block who Is trying 10 build a Methodist college. He further took the precautlon of painting It a brilliant pea green. jcSt to tantallze Ben's heterogeneous animals on the other side of the fence.
 But he had deeper design In thls color Ing. For the pea green Is of the highest aesthetic Aubrey Beaidsley significance of the etheral eyaneScent, and no lawver-no Skagway lawver-wOuId dare to put lien upon A building so painted as such a chameleon hue would render Identification a matter of such difficulty as to place him out of court whenever the matter came to trial.
 With these precautions the old captain has left us. His figure on our streets will be missed. Let us hore that he will be successful h his brave quest of the golden fleece. At any rate We have no fear that he will duplicate the experience of his illus trious namesake, the thlrtY-second cousin of Paul Kruger, of whom it Is written;
 Owen Moore left town one day,
 Owing more than he could pay;
 Owen Moore returned one day,
 Owing more.