The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1901-01-18
ONLY ONE TRAIN BOY
SOLE REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS
GLASS IN ALASKA.

{ ndy Butcher on the Kiondike Linn
tied rocs Not Need 20 Dig Col -
Emo nous Prices Given or livery
thing He Has to Sci.
The old query as to whether or not
you would like to be the iceman will
be rapidly forgotten rs soon as song
writers and halladists learn about the
train boy la Alaska. There is train
boy IN Alaska. Just one. or rather
there was few weeks ago, but by this
time he may be somewhere in the Med
iterranean on his private yacht blowing
rings FROM his 5O-cent cigars, and
swearing at his Sj.OOO-ayea sailing
master because hc cannot whistle up
breeze
Think Of being the only train boy on
railroad that brings miners with
thousands Of dollars worth Of gold out
OF the greatest mining camp IN the
world There is only one railroad TO
Alaska that is the White Pass and
Yukon Railroad. On that railroad there
Is train called the KlOndlke Limited.
The Klondlke Limited Isn't the
sound Of that name enough to make
common candy butcher on the run be-
tween Peoria and Lafayette, Ind, stick
his head Into his basket of slated pea
nuts and straugle himself to death2 For
there Is a tralnboy on the Klondlke
Limited. On the KlOndlke Limited,
nj a a. "a
Adventures weighted down with gold
en- nuggets back to the States clviliza-
ton. and the girls they left behind
them, there is a candy butcher. And
all these prospectors and miners and
adventurers on this Klondlke Limited
are bubbling over with JOY that the
days OF their exile are over, aud that
soon they viii he back TO their boyhood
homes again. Think Of turning loose
candy butcher In such crowd as that.
70 quote another popular song, 1T
seems like shame TO take the
money"
The tralnboy on the Klondlke Limit
ed, like his brothers on the Kenosha To-
cal, deals In peanuts. candy, books, pa
pers. aud magazines. But more than
that he sells shirts aud collars and
bright red necktcs He also has a full
line OF plug tobacco and cigars Of the
finest cabbage selected leaf The train
boy does not like to sell cigars He only
gets 80 cents apiece for them, and they
cost him 70 cents a hundred. He sells
the cigars TO show he's good fellow.
lie didn't originally deal In shirts and
haberdashcry, hut he found that the
miners returning to civilization yearn
madly for billed" shirt. So after he
had sold the shirt on his back, together
with his collar and red necktie for 500
he decided TO carry stock Of shirts
and ties.
There are stringent restrictions In
Alaska Ia regard to selling whisky, and
so the traipboy doesn't sell It.. He gives
Il away. aud lets the man tip him for
his trouble In pulling the cork. II the
man were to give him a nugget any
smaller than the size Of the cork the
tralnboy would haughtlly refuse to let
him buy any more cigars. and would
charge him at least So for two
months old new paper which he ordi
narlly gives away for only $3.50.
Then the tralnboy sells playing cards
and the passengers are always wanting
game. lie puts up the table. too
hands around the matches and. OF
course. large and substantial kitty
Is maintained ON one side Of the tabl,
for the sole support of the oblIgins
trainboy If anybody was to put 4
quarter or a silver half dollar Into IN,
kitty" the tralnh0y wouldn't be angry
He uses those things 70 pay storekeep
ers for fresh goods for his next run.
A Seattle newspaper man interviewed
the tralnbOy ON the last trip from Alas
ka. Quoth the tralnboy: "Am l t.
Am II Say. amt naughty boyY
know It's wrong to take the money bu
need Il In my business. and, besides
as soon as l get enough I'll bay tn,
railroad and give some other good de
serving boy a chance TO fasten on to
little honest money. But 81 for sacl
OF peanuts Say. that's a penitentiar
oGense in Illinois. But need the mon
ey."-Chlcago Tribune.