The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-01-25
RICH KL0NDIkER
CLAIMS BRIDE
Goes TO Dawson From Berlin,
She From africa.
ROMANCE THREE CONTINENTS
BRIDE AND GROOM VISIT SALT
LAKE ON WEDDING TOUR

"a ERE IS romance OF three CONT
n nents-North America. EUROPE
and Asia The hero and heroine
have been joined in marriage after
having been separated for years By
half the circumference OF the globe
The bridegroom Is Louis Hoffman. who
has made a fortune in the klondll<e.
The maiden name Of the bride was
Miss Bertha Abelson- They spent yes
terday IN Selt Lake rs the guests Of
Mr. and Mrs. J. j. Meyers Of the salt
Lake eostuminG house
The story begins I'm Berlin a NUM-
Der of years ago. There Louis Hoff-
man was g poor German boy. How
ever, he hal the Acquaintance OF Herr
Abelsou, a wealthy ostrich merchant.
and his family. Herr Abelson had "a.
big ostrich farm I'm africa and was 81
large dealer iu plumes. marketing his
own product through his agency in
Berlin. He had two homes-one ia
Africa ana tine other in Berlin. Herr
Ahelson had beautiful daughter
Bertha. Dut even if I'm nose days voung
Holman had desired 60 wed her he
would not rave dared aspire 10 her
hand Not cnly was she TOO young,
bat ne was only 81 poor hoy.
Finds Fortune in KIondike
He started out for America 10 seek
his fortune For years ne struggled
without great success. until in 1897 he
went to the klOndike. There the
fckle Dame Fortune began To smile
on him. and he prospe~ed- He opened
up an establishment in Dawson where
he bought gold and sold diamonds. He
made good Investments and now hc
is said to be worth several hundred
thousand dollars.
Last September he left Dawson To
take a trip back to his native land.
The guiding hand OF destiny arranged
it jhat the Abeis0n family left their
African home and were ip their Berlin
/ domicile When the former poor Berlin
I lad returned as "a wealthy ki9Hdlkev-
/ He went to- see them and behold he
found that the pretty little Bertha he
remembered 81 @ mere child had grown
into a WOndrously handsome young
woman
It did nos take them Ions so make
[ no their minds what they should do.
+ From the frozen regions Of the far
north and from che lands OF The tr0pir
sun fate had brouEbt these two. 70
meet IN their native city. They de
cided never gain 60 les .sttch distance
/ separate them, and in November they
1 were married.
OWeI IMP IOr bTloe-
A novel feature ~ the wedding trip
awaits the bride. Accustomed TO the
heat of the land Of the equator, she
VIII soon be introduced to.the country
/ where the sun nerelv TinlSs ~ mid
night. 8i1. anC 4lrs- Holman LETT issst
Knight for Seattle. They VIII remain
I there until March. when they viii sail
/ for Skagway. There they yyiH take the
/ railroad to White Horse. The rest Of
| the trip. several hundred miles down
/ the Yukon. viii be made in sledges over
the ice and snow. Travel is heavy
/ enough there now so that there are
many comforts lacking in the days Of
| the rush few years ago, but never
| theless the bride viii have a real taste
of far northern winter In Dawson
1 she viii find a modern city, with cleo
trio lights, telephone and other con-
/ veniences. but it VIII be a radical
change from the country Of heat and
. lUxuriaBt vegetation or the German
metropolis.
Second Boom for Klondiks.
Mr.. Hoffman is an enthusiastic be
lever in the Klondike and in ali
/ Alaska He SAYS the agricultural re-
sources are just beginning 10 be de-
I veloped and viii add greatly TO the
wealth of the region. and ne predicts a
second mining boom. The new stimu-
Ius viii rot be 20 placer mining. he
saws but to the extraction Of gold
from the mother lodes. which are now
being discovered
Heretofore the gold has come en-
tirely from the placer diggings.' said
ar. Hoffman. Unless there are new
discoveries. these must in a short time
be worked out There are new strikes
being made all the time but none SO
important as the discoveries Of the
quartz lodges from which the placer
gold originally came. No efforts have
been made to work the quartz before.
Machinery IS going in now, and as
soon as the season opens a number q
stamp mills VIZ begin operations.
While ] am not familiar personally
/ with the quartz deposits, those who
I do know a great deal about them say
they viii cause q sensation The his
/ tory of the klOudike viii probably be
much like that Of California There
the placer mines drew the crowds The
placers were worked out in few
years. but the quartz mines are IN op-
Grafton vet and 0r- -f'~ning out gold
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