The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-10-30
CHAPTER XII.

~ ESPITE his many sources of revenue Day
1 lights pyramiding kept him pinched for cash
Hthroughout the first winter The pay gravel.
- thawed OF bedrock and hOisted TO the surface
Immediately froze again. Thus his dumps,
containing several millions of gold
were inaccessible. Not until the returning sun thawed
the dumps and melted the water wash them was he
able TO handle the gold they contained And then he
found himself with surplus of gold deposited in the
two newly organized banks, and he promptly be-
sieged by and groups Of men enlist his capital
IN their enterprises.
But he elected to play his own game and he entered
combinations only when they were generally defen-
siye or offensive Thus though he had paid the high
est wages he Joined the Mine Owners Association en-
gineered the fight and eectualy curbed the growing
INSTRUMENTATION of the wage earuers Times had
changed. The old days were gone forever This was
new era, and Daylight, the wealthy mine owner was
loyal to his class affiliations 1t was true the old
timers who worked for him. IN order to be saved from
The club of the organized owners were made foremen
over the gang of chechaquos but this with Daylight
was matter Of heart not head. In his heart he could
not forget the old days. while with his head he plaved
the economic game according to the latest and most
practical methods
but outside OF such group combinations of exhibit
erS he refused to bind himself to any mans game
He was playing great lone hand and he needed all
his money for his own backing The newly founded
stock exchange interested him keenly He had never
before seen such institution but he was quick TO
see its virtues and to utilize it, Most of all II was
gambling and many an occasion not necessary for
the advancement of his own schemes he as he called
II, sent the stock exchange a-futter out of sheer
wantOnness and fun.
1t sure beats faro" was his comment one dav
when, after keeping the Dawson spectators in n
fever for week by alternate bulling and bearing
he showed his hand and cleaned up what would have
been fortune to any other man.
other men, having made their strike had headed
south for the States taking furlough from the grim
Arctic battle But when asked when he was going
Outside Daylight always laughed and said when be
had finished playing his hand. He also added that a
man was fool to qsit game just when a winning
hand had been dealt him.
IL was held by the thousands of hero worshppinc
chechaquos that Daylight was a man absolutely with
out iear' But BEETLES and Dan Macdonald and other
sourdoughs shook their heads and laughed as they
mentioned women. And they were right He had
always been afraid Of them from the time himself =
lad OF seventeen when Queen Anne of Juneau made
open ana ridiculous love TO him. For that matter he
never had known women Born in a mining comn
where they were rare and mysterious having no Sis
ters his mother dying while he was an infant. he
had never been in contact with Them True, running
away from Queen Anne he had later encountered
them OK the Yukon and cultivated acquaintance
with them-the pioneer ones who crossed the passes
on the trail of the men who had opened up the first
diggilgs. But no lamb had walked with wolf
in greater fear and trembling than mad he walked
with them 1t was matter of masculine pride that