Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-11-03
Royal Mail Stages
Passes Into History
{ BY International News Service.

Seattle. Wash, Nov. 2--The royal stages o the
Klondike have passed.
No longer will the famous stages of the White Pass
Yukon Route drawn by fleet-fooed horses,
~ pctureeme drivers who knew no fear 90 f1yine over
the white trail Dawson the Klondi,e
The hills of the North country will echo
back and forth the weird stirring ma1ante call OF the
stage drivers they brought their vehicles through the
and the beating of hoofs that herald
ed the sleds of the royal mail the king mai-for they
have gone.
of the passng>of a work is contained in
ii will longer be able to operate the stages be-
cause of increasing costs and must therefore shut
down.
And so, when snow flies in a few weeks, over the
Klondike there will be stages to take up the work
twenty years service, service regular NOR
ming and night the stages have stopped Unless some
other company takes up the work there VIII be no COM
municaton with inside. the I<londke will
drop again into the prrneral isolation which was
hers before the white nan came in the great rush Tor
gold. ~
Bu many who knew the royal mail stages have gone.
The Kondike kings whose pleasure 1t was TO rae lorth
on the stages elbow elbow with the incoming pros
pectors have. for the most part gone their way swift
water Bin Gates Big Aeck Mcdonald, famous skoo-
kun Jim Indian, Jack Boyle and Thomas $ Lippy,
great of great times, were some OF them ana
can mining camp; Tom Lippy is Seattle banker and
president OF the Port Commission Big Aleck sleeps
jim is dead, to the happy hunting GROUNDS
Jack Boyle of the klondke heroes of the great
war, regarded as the friend and benetae'or
OF the Runanian royal family.
Had Noted Drivers. ,
And the drivers then,seves"IIobo Bl' ana Big
Sim" were two them; of the gallant company that
piled back and the Arctic night perched on the
,aa,,n" s,cd guiding their horses with miraculous ac
ctrncv skidded the snow the hard packed
snow that like marble. 1t was an event III D'sw-
when OF these two mon poted a roStu hti'
into the imperial city OF Yukon, careening down the
Slondike road These drivers never used horns OF
l1elns Their only call, their warning as they rev
around the sharp corners of the Yukon uil was 'ie
long piercing, spine chilling cry of the malamote
ISvervhody gave the right of way the rlsht OF
,v,v IN The mai They knew no oostacles An"
vet in The long those who capained the stages
,hor, was not one who ever abused this privilege the
stnpe
twenty miles they always travelled on the oeo i"
' New Trail
In the early years the White Pass and YUKON oH'u
,a s,rvice the great traii followed the route OF the
Yukon River But a iran was butt thfoush tl'o
aenificen scenery by the Canadian government t'
,nrnpa route And only the stages used TINS IRA"
,t practically of the multitude OF travellers pros
,t.oors patrols the Royal Northwest houteu poHee'
nt p,ck and forth trading post of trading post
ii camp to camp 81, .,,,,r,, \
( Ana now old stages are gone the st'seH
# tho royal mail the great white tiah rei'ti9
n, great white the overland trail that INKS te
snnIike and the world during the long <etV