The Alaska daily empire., 1915-10-07
TIRE ALAsKAs CRUISE
 WiTH VARIATIONS, BY
 BILLIE WoooWoRTH, ETC

TIRE ALAsKAS CRUISE,
 WiTH VARlATiON0, BY
 BILLIE WooOWORTH, ETC.
 "Bnnoa Woodwork and Ben Hunt certainly handed Q reporter on Che se' aite postInteliigeacor @ good bunch After drowning "Andy" Anderson, who is allll in Juneau, and alive and well. and Iosing' two othor mem bers of Che launch's Alaskan party, Blnie gave tbo newspaper reporter O picture of the boat and iis "crow which adorned the first page of the Postlntelligencor on the day following their arrival n Seattle.
 Here is what the Post-lntelligenc- CT said of the Alaska party.
 A battered little twenty-five foot launch open save for a raised cabin forward. manned by two weary young men, chugged slowly into Salmon Bay yesterday afternoon, completing a 8000.mile 8 journey from north of Ju- neau to seattle Ben Hunt former Vancouver ball player, and William Wordsworth, of Juneau. are the sole survivors of the crew that numbered five men when they first left Juneau for the Northern waters but which was cut down first to three by the desertiou of two. who found that yoy- aging in a tiny craft was somewhat perilous and then reduced to two by the drowning Of Carl Anderson, Q young mnn from Chicago, who was swept froir the boat by the big seas when she swamped off Douglas ls- land
 Trip lo Not Ended
 Although the trip was ore of peril from tho time the boats prov was turned toward Seattle until she reach. ed the smoother waters of Admiralty inlet. the two young men will only stay here long enoungh to have the engine overhauled before starting on the long voyage down to San Fran cisco. where practically ell of the trip will be on open water
 The journey down from the North was simply one accident and narrow escape after another. The little craft sank at Haines Mission in forty feet Of water when overwhelmed by a tide rip; sank again off O windy point further down, swamped off Douglas Island when Anderson was drowned piled up on the beach so many times that the two men grew weary of work ing the boat into water again. caught in a terrific blow off Dixon's entrance and when engine trouble developed was blown 100 miles to sea and dur ing the three days and nights neither slept
 Mlshap Nearly Fatal.
 This Inst mishap nearly proved fa tai. as they were riding to an i'm provised sea anchor with the waves gradually getting 30 large that it al most seemed impossible they should live another day, when their plight was observed by fishing vessel, the "Susy." and the little launch was lowed to Prince Rupert for repairs.
 And even after they conquered the lperila of the sea they were continual ly hampered by thick fogs and could only find land when they ran into it They estimated chat fully 600 miles oi the 5000 they travelled were through fogs SO thick chat they had to rely solely on the compass.
 Trapped By the Tide
 Even In habors the demon of ill luck pursued them, for both nearly lost their lives at Loew Inlet B. C.. when the prov of their boat caught under a stringer and the rising tide nearly trapped them. Both were in their hunks asleep and would have remained asleep had not the changed angle of the boat knocked down some dishes. which awakened the two Quick work with an axe on the stringer say ed them from sinking as they got the hiat freed just as the water be gan to pour into the cockpit
 we had a somewhat busy time, ] admit" said Mr. Woodwork last ev ening at the Seattle. However, as soon as we get that little boat in shape we are on our way again for San Francisco"
 The Alaska is twenty-five feet long and is six feet seven inches in width She carries no tender nor sails and is powered by an sleyen-horse gaso- line engine,