The Alaska citizen., 1911-03-27
PEABODY RECALLS
 OlD TIMES
CAPTAIN ,ELLS RATHER FANCI- .CL oiOnt UT me rOONO-
 lNu Or FAtHoANKS

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 Ea.y..u. Who has visited Alaska knows Jap.. Peabody as the man who for years ran ind pendent .,amaoats on he Yukon and the Panama Gt}eI-. and uAa to,k Capt HauoJc away up inc latter when he Was looking about for a site for he future m sUopOis of Fairbanks. Capt. Peabody is seeing New York for the liI-t lime since February 1>e>. When he left here that time he promised his friends he would be lack in six months.
 "Trc first Washington's birthday I sucn5 up in the northwest was in 1>39 and | hguucne1 t~ he in D9"- son." satd Capt. Peabody. "The"a was IHu.h of Americans in th tfa~c-t Lar. and hev proceeded to wh-on il up that night. In the ear1y t4g-s nr 'ha celebration s mo ot trr Hri.l-her5 present were Hri.aiHg fo Gonrgn Washington's memory. but when things had pro sr..sg1 a. 1i-lc semC of the Cana Gfane uro. Cut rc~an tO get a little rcrc oyer the celebration and wen outside. vh.ro S.wC f the fellows who were rpa'tne anoi were shoot fac in fha air and gaf uu on honches and logs and pretcs'c1 against Am crfnau- coming up there and bom- h0r'irg fhCir civ T. did not go. for the m nnrc1 p~liCe took no no 'inn f II ir protests, and at that tfwa fh.ra were more Americans .fan rrra 'iau= in Dqw-Ou. anyhow.
 MADE TO NNEEL TO FLAG
 ""rr tha- same oar party of fro American: and ci@h' Canadians ..,yc on Inc way from Dawson t0 Erht,a Pass and the Canucks were roEire aH sor.- If na-'r remarks about C orrc auf the fog cn the ra-. md kent f un m'il ther reach .l -hn summit f the pass which is he bonn 'ary line. a'auf ren fec ewar. Tho Americans were in "ay1e racing br tht time. and .naa tha. he'd cot under the stars ag' .rtn.s co,h of them whipped .-. his revolver an1 covered mos z rho f~uot'.n- They were i'll ..m.. .. aa5 .hy made every one " -e E....N. E.... 'm1 -a'u thc flag. Then thev resumed their
 ~Ir vas f- 1aoi that in the sfoam ...."a Eorg. of more than 600 tons. tool, Cqn.. Rer~o H# n wanora fiscr fw 2a1 ni'cf lookin" for nlalc 'o -f2rt camp. Cant Rarna.a Wa. }ro'ifng fr goll Hs irta .ra- solely f3 traao fir fdre -a .- .no inc ne sv1s &22.o0o in r.r. r.-.l- rrr H. f2f Ions O un.pharHt-c of --tt# A' ..l.t. A 2r f r7. .r s.E .s iar'p~
 FIRST TRIP UP THE RIVER.
 "I raa rc.er lceu up the ri.er be- fore. and ! was told a St. Michael f would le impossialo i'll that ...amer. There wasn't any chart, u' ! 'g-t kept to tha middle If the river end went I'D m'N Capt. Bar lnt.c saw c]ump of fine trees on rho rank and we stopped. During the latter part cf our journey we would pass an Indian village of five or six tents every few miles, which, even as We locked back. would dis auurar f-r immediately the inhahit- anrs would pull down their tens, stow them in canoes and paddle along after u5 10 see what we were going to Go
 'Barn.tte had broueht carpenters along. and by the time the freight was un'~a5e9 they had log house huil. over it. and that was the otagt If the town.
 Then some Cf Barnettes men thoueht the country looked good enough to prospect in, and an ltal- ian named Pi trO sank hole and came across gold nugpets as hie as vour hand. and that made Fairbanks a miuing camn. Then, when Dan McCorty go' lest in the neiehbor- h~od and just to pass the time eank a hole on Fairbanks creek and found ere. that started the boom.
 "Rut the work of unloaaing th1t steamer vas about tha oh ancs ] ever had done. l got the Indians to do it. and the pay they deman'c' was a chew Cf tobacco and some sweet cakes.
 FAILED AT GOLD MINING.
 ''I went uD to Alaska to gat rich ont of gold mining. but when ] fail- cd at that l took up work 10 Whic1 y had heen used all my life and in which my f9'her had been engage' for more than forty years on the coast which was steamboatin". Running an independent boat, I was able 10 do fav"rs for m who were on their uouers and who have since made fortunes.
 "I had inc Monarch during the rush of 'a3, and when l left Daw- son Mav 21 that year I thought ] had a full load but l did not realize just how full it was until I left the pilot nOuse for the pantry to get a mi1nieht supper l simply could not eer there. because people were ui'cd up in the messages everywhere. had the promenade deck piled up with eggs, onions, potatoes and fruit, and the hurricane deck vas filled with crap tables, roulette wheels and gambling paraphernalia of every kind, while on top of this was a cOmnl~te Outfit for a hotel.
 QUARTERS WERE CROWDED.
 "Pete Mcdonald with four ether men Cccunied berth room, the bunch having paid for all the berths. In another room were six women, going in to join their husbands or to prospect, and one of the women said she could not stand being in with the other five because the room was so small and the other women took up so much room that ho i,,rr