The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-18
GRAND EXCURSION
From Seattle to Cape Nome and Back
For 500.

From Seattle to Cape Nome and Back
For 500.
One Of the grandest, most pictur-
esque and longest ocean excursions
will be made by the steamship Roam
oke largely in. the month of July next.
That voyage will be from Seattle
to Cape Nome by the inside passage
and return by the ocean route, and
will occur between July 9Th and Au-
gust 9Th.
The excursion will be one of the
grandest ever offered Of its kind, be-
cause the steamboat passage by the
inside route through Georgian Bay,
Dixon's Entrance, past Juneau to
Cooks Inlet, and then away to the
Aleutian Islands, does present the
grandest scenery ever beheld from the
deck Of a vessel!
The steamship Roanoke, which will
make this voyage, has capacity for
entertaining 146 first class passengers
but only 1872 will be taken.
The accommodations for second
class passengers number forty, and
100 in the steerage.
But it is with the first class passen-
gers that we have to deal-as the sec
ond class and steerage passengers
would not make the round trip, but
only take advantage of the low rates
made for either way.
The Steamer Roanoke was for ten
years the Treasure Ship of the North
American Transportation & Trading
Company.
Until the close of 1893 this ship
always brought all the gold which
that great company, with it's $4,000
600 assets, sent to the States-and has
| always been looked upon as mascot.
Her accommodations for passengers
that Is the number which she actu-
steamship af1oat in Pacific waters.
The opportunity on this steamer for
| under cover" games and anusements
are sufficient for the number Of pas
sengers which she will carry.
The distance to Cape Nome by the
inside passage and return by the ocean
| voyage, is nearly 5000 miles-and yet
| the Roanoke will steam from Cape
| Nome to Seattle easily in ten days.
On the upward passage, from three
to twelve hours will be spent at
Juneau, Valdez, Seward and Dutch
Harbor-thus giving excursionists an
opportunity to transact some business
at these various points if they should
so desire. WE
IT will be the purpose, the aim and
the pleasure of the management of
the Roanoke to furnish the most elab-
crate and palatable menu ever pro-
vided on any Ship not excepting the
greyhounds of the Atlantic.
For this outing, which under no cir
cumstances will exceed thirty-three
days, and probably not thirty days,
the nominal sum of one hundred dol
lars will be charged for the entire voy-
age, and all that that voyage requires.
OF course it is understood that there
are luxuries on a steamship which are
always In the nature of EXTRAS
but on this trip luxuries will be limited
to .'barbering and the bar"
! It would seem that there ought TIC
be five hundred people more than
/ pleased to take advantage of this ex-
/ traordinary offer-while the capacity
/ will be limited to 1872 first class pas
|sengers- 1t goes without saying
i that second class and steerage passen-
/ gers do not mix with the first class
4 passengers.
4 The agents for the Steamer Roam
oke are Messrs. Schubach & Hamilton
at 1913 Cherry Street, Seattlewh
all detailed information may be OBJ
/ tanned and reservations made.
Fifty reservations Will be held fol
Spokane, the leading cities Of Mon
tana, Minneapolis and st. Paul ano
San Francisco.