The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-22


at the bow of the boat. to keep her nose
up stream. A moment later the policeman,
having raced up the stairway and dowa
again, runs forward, and, just as the line
IS cast off, leaps from the lower deck to
row boat and from there to The shore. AS
he walks past, painting like ferry engine,
/ ask him why he has romped so near to
death. oh he answers, with wave of
his head, man thought his grip had gone
back on that boat, but it hadn't"
That was all This fearless young man
had rislled his life to do a stranger a good
turn. 1t was not a part of his business,
but he did it, and thought nothing of it.
Freight for White Horse.
Now the emptys begin to rattle in from
White Horse-the empty cars on the
Spruce Line. While the horses eat the
men load the freight, using scrubby
cayusc as switch engine The motive
power of the Spruce Line consists of
twenty-siX horses, the rolling stock in
cludes thirteen four-wbeeled, implanted
freight cars, about the size and shape of
an ordinary transfer wagon. The wheels
of the cars are wide and conceived, to fit
over the round spruce rail. The ties are
of the same material-epruce-and were
cut when the right-of-way was cleared.
This, the first railway in the Yukon
country, is better for the moment than
anybody's mine Each of these cars,
drawn by two ordinary horses, walking
tandem, driven by a man who handles
freight at each end of the line, earns $40
a trip, making from two 10 three trips
a day. The foreman said operating ex
penscs were $500 day. At least, half
that was dust in my eye Cali 1t $500
and this five miles of spruce road is clear
ing a thousand dollars a day, carrying
freight and people into country that
is supposed to be dead
you come on the last car and look af-
ter The luggage" said Capt. b. I'm go
on to White Horse, round my fellows up,
secure a boat, and If the Victorian does
not sail until midnight, We'll take scoot
over the new copper fields"
About / .. m. my car left the station,
and about one-three left the track The
sharp rim of the wheel cut into the rail,
climbed it and dropped to the ties. A
delicate-looking lady from Frisco with
an S-year-old boy, who had been Ill all
night. and I made up the passenger list.
We unloaded. / helped the long, lank,
good-natured fireman, engineer and con-
ductor make wooden frogs for the wheels.
Then we hitched to the rear end Of the
car and tried TO drag 1t back on the rail-
II would not go on, and we were obliged
to send back to the Canyon for help.
Finally we were on again-gone again.
When the little boy was walking in the
When his mother put him on the car he
regretted II, for there was great danger
of dslocating his spinal column. l paid a
dollar 10 ride and when / was not helping
Ia get the ear on the track was walking,
and when was not walking j was re-
GREETING my dollar.
Little Klondike Romance.
"There" said Mrs. NJ. to her little boy.
"there. dear, are the dreadful White Horse
rapids, where papa's ship was wrecked.
and here over this rocky trail we walked
yith bare, bleeding feet"
seeming copy" ! introduced myself ana
learned that Mr.. NJ. had been wrecked in
The rapids some two years ago. His boat,
with his leather coat and notebook IN the
botfom OF st. dhfted all thu way 10 Daw-
son. San Francisco newspaper corre-
spondent found the coat guessed the rest.
ana Mr. NJ was m0urned Us dead az
frisco for many moons Finally he reach
cd Dawson and e0ntradlcied the story Of
his death. ana now, after Two long years
hia lgifs ana boy vars ROinG 10 ioln hln