Williams news., 1904-05-28

and over would go plates, cups, dinner and all. Then not being able to get below, they would lie down and let the stormy sea wash over them.
 At one time a steward tried to take a small pitcher of hot water to sick passenger; one man car ried the pitcher and another went along to help steady him. After much struggling they reached the state room with about a wine glass full of water. Sometimes above all the other noise and din was heard the barking, growing and snarling of the eighty six sea sick dogs. If they could have broken out of their crates, what prize fights we could have had. AS it was, number of crates became broken in the storm, and no sooner was one broken than its occupant would get out and be- gin a fight with it's next neighbor So far as know, only three of these dogs lived to come back to the states. Strange as It may seem. these dogs were all put down into the steerage with the passengers; is it any wonder some of them went crazy?
 By noon of this first bright day, we had reached the entrance of Prince William Sound, through which we sailed to Port Valdes, then called Copper City. The first stop we made after leaving Port Townsend was at Orca, a salmon canning station on the shores of the sound about half up to the port. This factory was owned and man. aged by the same steamship com pany which operated the line of steamers then running between San Francisco and Valdes.
 Prince Williams Sound is beau tiful body of water, about one hun dred miles long and varying in width from twenty to fifty miles. It has wooded shores and many islands, both large and small, they being also wooded. Quite an in dustry has sprung up on some of these islands-the government hav- ing sold some of them to parties or individuals, who started raising the silver fox for it's furs, which are very valuable. It is a profta ble business, with little labor attached.
 The hardest work at that time was to keep the foxes from being stolen, for men of the pirate order would row up to an island and cap, ture some of the best animals. It was only by the closest watch that the industry could be preserved.
 At the inland end of the Sound lies Valdes Bay. About five miles from where we should have been landed the captain was about to put us off on an island, to get our goods over to the main land as best we could;> that would have left him free to return to San Francisco at once for another load of passengers. but the men would not be treated that way and it almost caused a mutiny n board. After many hours of delay the lighter which had followed us in from Orca was signalled and came alongside. Our boat was too large to go nearer the shore, so all our goods had to be unloaded from the steamer onto the lighter, and from the lighter onto the ice. This was greater under taking than would at first seem, as there were about five hundred tons of provisions and outfitting belong ing to the passengers. Each man had to turn in and help move freight; in fact, all the men were converted for the time being into stevedores. The lighter handled only fifty tons and made two trips a day. The outfits were all piled together indiscriminately on the edge of the ice, and when all had been landed the work began of sep arating them. This was accom- plished by d gang of men who han dled each piece separately, and as the mark was noted it was called out by man standing on a box, and the owner came forward and claimed it. After all was divided up and claimed they were a weary lot of men,