Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-08-27

kets are nice. A hat, for chief, was b
Of braided straw and so fine and firm b
The price was $125, and it will probably Il
find place in some museum. o
The ladies we met on the street werei n
neatly dressed and the children appear '
ed we'll cared for. ID
We noticed on a corner Reading
Room" and look inside showed papers ,
and magazines, and quite library. 1t liz
was mission and services were held ,
there every evening, and we learned
that good school is maintained. Some
nice looking houses we're seen where
one would judge that comfort had q
place. 1t is indeed quaint looking
place, built in narrow space between
the water and mountains, where snow
slide will possibly some day wipe them
out of existence.
The mountains all around are steep
and several little creeks appear, away
on the mountains they show merely q
white line, but nearer they take shapes
of tiny cascades, rapids and falls.
With the two towns and the mines
it is busy spot, and of much interest
to all, having passed 30 many miles
with SO few signs of civilization Be-
tween nine and ten o'clock in the even
ing it was dark, and it does seem queer,
SO many hours of daylight after supper
time. The evening was cold and 1t has
been cool all day and warm cloth
ing was comfortable.
Friday, August 8, 1902.
Skagway, on Skagway bay, Alaska.
A cool morning. We landed at seven
o'clock a. m. The dock Is built partly
over the water and the remainder on q
narrow shelf at the foot of an almost
perpendicular rock SCARED mountain.
On its sides grow scattering trees, and
dwsrfed heritage; few flowers cling to
the sides, q little beauty amid the will
derness.
The overhanging rocks seem almost
topping from their places, and being In
, layers, appear ready to slide and over
} whelm all below, and ware house and
, dock and everything now seem await
I ing terrible fate.
About one.half mile to the north is
4 the town of 5000 inhabitants. We
: walked there over broad roadway of
4 planks, built upon piles, perhaps thirty
Q feet from the water where the tide rises
!. nearly to the top. Here is found much
Q more space for town than at Juneau
n Streets are of fair width and we saw no
q dearth of horses and necessary vehicles
There are tolerable good business
1t houses with the everlasting curio store
% with its wares the same today as ever
le Fruit is of good quality and in abun
IS, dance, shipped from Washington an
10 California. Some of these wild fruit
es are plentiful among which are th
lie gooseberry and BURBERRY.
re Saw variety of nice looking vegt
d. tables and learned that they were grow
le in the suburbs and lots; saw the fin
I gardens. Flowers were growing In Pre-
K fusion, and of home varieties. Th
* buildings are of wood, some beiD
it built of logs. Many of the houses or
M we'll built, and most of them look com
TX Portable, but the average home is small
le Saw notices on several "For Rent" an
or by their size they could not contain NOR
l. than one room, but pioneers withou
ne money must begin small, and how Of
ten when such people are prospered d
Oh they forget the day of small thing
ty One feature was quite noticeable; viz
DIS the number of dogs, they are all size
RS. colors and conditions. The one for Sc
st vice on the sledge is q light gray and
g. medium size, and to hear him bark
or almost the same as the bowling of
be wolf, whose cousin he is. The 9th,
is dogs, as far as size and faithfulness al
ri concerned would be more desirable fl
at sledge work, but they have not the e.
durance.
ne AS to the town, could any place
ire more romantic than this little tow
Dr. hidden and nesting as it is, with IL
d. waters of the bay, with their It'd
he changes, at its feet, and the mountain
as sloping upward tier above tier as If v.
DIS ing with each other in height and ru
wv gedness. What shapes they assume. Q
the topmost ridge of the nearest is
an beautiful grecian profile view. The ella
I'd sic features are well defined and "
he can almost fancy 1t to be one Of the o
of heroes changed to stone. How the ne
d. and far mountain tops glisten wi
d, snow and glaciers, how inaccessible tn
seem; but adventures have scaled the
ne heights and added to their names glo
of one kind.
e) But after all, we can but questlc
he what was the primary reason for PEI
n. pie leaving good homes and business
rs, live thus secluded? Was 1t to develt
wv these domains for the nations good, s
I'D that people would arise in future 81
,ot build a monument to their memory
lie. or that children would be benefit'
hit by their ancestors greatness? n
ret the love of gold built these town
and developed, in large measure, tn
in part of our country.
Try Taking q seat in the cars that ru
ng from Skagway to Yukon and going
ire far as White Pass affirms my theor
ng The way is mostly in sight of tt
DC trail that the early prospectors followe
he in going over White Pass to the Yukt
country. What suffering, trials, hung
an and cold were endured on this never
US be forgotten path? could but thin
Tot that every step represented sigh ar
disappointment, for how few four