THE HIE PASS S
=YUKON 1101 =
The
Route of
Comforty
Speedy
Service
Safety.
During the winter season of 1913-14 our regular train service j
will be maintained North and South boi.Ld between Skaguay |
and White Horse, every Tuesday and Friday.
Winter Stage Service
between White Horse auil l»uvsou will Pe in regular operation
affording our patrons maximum of Comfort and Safety.
The V bite Pass & Yuk»i> Koute will maantain an efficient
freight and passenger stag« service from White Horse, Yukon
Territory, via Lake Kluane to the
Chisana Gold Fields
This U the only safe and sane route to li-e new diggings, and
we will gladly answer all inquiries. We vt ill also operate a
l'rei^'it service up the Wh ite River ani carry * full line of
g-ooeriet and feed at tuou th of White River. These supplies
can be obtained by prosp ectors at reasonable prices.
For full information ap ply to
ll. Wheeler,
Surt. Mail Service Dept.,
White Horse, Y. T.
j. E. Ueiupsey,
Traffic Manager,
CiJ Second Ave., Seattle.
The White Pass uKan Route
TIME l'ABLE No. au.
Tues'la/ and lYiilajr.
No. 1 X. Bound
1st clacs
8:30 u. iu. leaves
11:00 "
11:40 "
12:35 p. in.
2:00 " "
4:13 " Arrives
SKAlilAY
WH1TK I'A^
I.l)l. CAJUN
BENNETT
CAKLBOU
WHITEHORSE
No. 2 S. Uu-ukI
lbt class
Arrives 3:20 p. in.
Leav.'e 1:45 "
" 12:47 "
" 12:15 "
" 10:25 a. tit.
weaves &:15 "
Passengers must be at depots In tuue t» nave Baggage inspected
and checked. Inspection U stopped 30 iniuutes before leaving time of
trains.
150 pounds of baggage will be checked free with each full rar<*
ticket aad 75 pounds with each hnif fsr» ticket.
ft K M J II7T. WHARFINGERS AND
Moore s Whan warehousemen
Phones 11 or 123
All Steamers Arrive and Depart From This Wharf
—Regulations June 1. 1913
Warehouse open for delivery of merchandise from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M.
-Wharfage Tariff
General merchandise $1.00 per ton, Weight or measurement.
Horses. Mules and Cattle 75 c per head. " Sheep and Hogs*25c per~head.
Lumber $1.00 per Thousand feet. Board Measure.
All checked Baggage 25c per pice.
No Wharfage Cha-ge on Baggage Unchecked.
NUT COAL $10.00 SACKED REDUCED TO $9.00 BULK
I\irc Air . Pure Food . Pure.Dm
are essential to heaMty c'rowt a
BEEl
SEATTLE BREWING 3 HAUli,\. 03
JIATTLt.'VAiH.
For
Sale
In
Skagway
At All
First
Class
Bars
B. M. BEHRENDS,Banker
Juneau, - Alaska
OLDEST BANK IN ALASKA
Respectfully Solicits The Accounts
of Skagway Firms And Individuals.
The
A Story For Christmas
By ELMA R. TWINING
"And. now," said August Kaufman,
after receiving payment for his busi
ness which he liad just sold for what
was to hiiu a fortune, "the nest tiling
1 will do is to buy my ticket for home.
It will require two weeks for me to get
there and another two weeks to Hud
my wife and child, if I have good
luck we shall spend Christmas to
gether."
He spoke the words "if 1 have good
Juek" doubtfully and with a tremor In
his voice. Not for years liad lie heard
of his wife and child. He did not
know that he should lind them at all.
Would he tiud either of them alive?
And in what condition would he And
them, if at all?
Kaufman was an example of what
both adversity aud prosperity will do
for one. Years before in the city of
Anhalt Germany, he had met and
married Gretchen Reinicke. The bride
was given a substantial dowry by
her father, and the couple started
in life with every prospect of happi
ness. When a little boy was born to
them their affairs were in excellent
condition, and there was not a cloud
In their domestic horizon.
But Kaui'mau insisted on using his
young wife's dowry in business, aud
when his lircSo son Carl was a year
old the fatli.-r had lost every pfenning
of his capital. Too sensitive to re
main where he was to bear the re
proaches of his wife's relatives, he told
tier that he was going to America,
where, so lie understood, making a
living, if not a fortune, was easy, and
when KetlU'ii there he would send for
her and their child.
But Kauiiuan did not find America
a country s.> easy to get on in as he
liad expected. His nature was rather
"I AM TOt-R FATHUB."
I to m;ikc sliort cuts than to plod. He
! bad nut learned a trade; therefore he
! could not work by the day, and, hav
ing no capital, he was unable to go
1 Into business for himself. During the
j tirst year Of bis absence from home
| be "Tote to his wife regularly, but,
I having no prospect of being able to
send for her and little Carl, his letters
after that became less frequent
j Gradually from year to year August
Kaufman's connection with his family
j dwindled. Indeed, what was there to
hold them together, they being 15.000
J or 4.000 miles apnrt and in countries
I where the people were entirely differ
ent? It would be Impossible to look
into Kaufman's heart during this sep
j nration from his family and see just
what yearnings were there. We know
that after n time he stopped writing
and receiving letters, but may not his'
i wife as weli as he at last have tired
1 of a communication which was con
. lined t» pen and paper?
j About ten years after Kaufman's
coming to America, having made many
experiments and drifted to many coun
tries, he succeeded in borrowing a lit
j tie money to go into business, a part
. of the profits to go to the lender, lie
soon repaid tiie loan and in a few years
more soid out his business for enough
. to enable him to live the rest of his
I life in ease.
And now the original Kaufman re
I turns to us, and we find him as eager
i to/join Ills family as be had been dur
| ins those first lonely days that he had
spent in the new couutry. It is difficult
! to look upon him as the same person.
It is fifteen years since be left theru.
His affection for them has either died
or lain dormant
That it had lain dormant is evident
from the fact of the strong desire to
rejoin then; that bad suddenly darned
within him. It seemed that he could
scarcely wait for the steamer on which
he was to sail to leave. Then wbei.
crossing the ocean he counted every
day till he should reach the land ana
start by train for his old home. Once
his mind, divested of its absorption
IT" —
In business, been mo fixed on ms wire
and boy, lie began to dread that he
would find one or both dead or that
they had drifted away and he would
uot be able to learn where they had
gone.
When he reached Anhalt and went to
bis old home he found strangers there.
His wife had owned it but had sold
It, doubtless to obtain means to live.
His wife's parents were dead. He
found a cousin of hers who told him
that Gretehen and her son Carl had
grown very poor and had gone to Ber
lin. but their address in Berlin the in
formant did not know. But Kaufman
found others who had known his wife
and at last got the address, but since
she had gone away three years before
he had little hope of finding her. Be
fore leaving for Berlin he bought back
his wife's former home, paying an ex
tra price for immediate possession.
Ills reason for this was that be had
a faint hope that he would find his
family and that they might spend
Christmas in their old home. Consid
ering that he did not know that they
were alive, this contingency was very
remote, but somehow the husband and
father had a feeling that Providence
would be kind to him.
At the address in Berlin Kaufman
did not find !ils family. They had left
the place two yours ago. The only
comfort to l;e derived from this in
formation w: s that they had both been
alive two years' before. After inquiry
of a number of persons who had
known the mother and son in Berlin
Kaufman traced them to Leipzig. He
tried to learn how they had made a
living, but failed. The only informa
tion he received other than where they
had goue was that his son played the
violin.
Kaufman went to Leipzig, where ho
fouml ii house iu which his wife and
hoy had lodged. They hud left Leip
zig. hut no one could tell him where
they had none However, he gained
here a lilt of valuable Information. lie
learned that his boy. now sixteen
years old. had earned a living while
In Leipzig for himself and his mother
by playing the violin in an orchestra.
The father now had little hope of
succeeding in his search before Christ
mas. since but four days remained to
him. Surely, not knowing where on the
globe his loved ones were, how could
lie expect to find them in so short a
time? Nevertheless the feeling that a
kind Providence would help him did
not desert aim.
He at once took bold of the only
clew he had—that his son was a musi
cian. From Berlin Mrs. Kaufman and
Carl, having gone southward, -were on
the line to .Munich, which was a great
place for music. Would not a musi
cian be ino.'o likely on leaving Leip
zig to go to Munich than anywhere
else? Kaufman immediately started
for the capital of Bavaria.
On the night of his arrival he re
paired to the celebrated Hofbrau where
a great deal of beer Is consumed and
a great deui of music is discoursed.
He took a m at close to the orchestra
and studied the faces of the younger
players, 'i here was but one young
enough to be his Carl, and after study
ing the boy's face for awhile he
thought he could trace a resemblance
to himself. .'>s soon as the piece being
played was finished he went to the boy
and asked Uiin his name.
"Kaufman," was the response.
"Carl?"
"Yes, Carl."
Due more question the father asked
before declaring himself, "Is your moth
er living?" and, on receiving an affirma
tive answer, said:
"I am your father."
Carl could not leave the orchestra
until the evening's program was finish
ed. but he g;:ve his father his mother's
address, and the latter hurried away.
Of the ir.'-t ting between the long sep
arated couple there is no record, but
when Can Kaufman returned to his
lodgings be found his father and moth
er together and was informed that they
were all three to return to Anhalt in
the morning to spend Christmas in
their old home. So Carl resigned his
position in the orchestra, and the farn
il- left Munich.
Mrs. Kaufman had sold her hcuse
with the furniture, and when her hus
band repurchased it he bought back all
that had been sold. When the family
reached it they had only to walk in
and find everything as they had left
it. They returned to it the day be
fore Christmas in time to make prep
arations for the Christmas dinner the
next day.
It seemed to these people that they
were in a dream. Xow and again some
one of them would stop and wonder:
"Can this be true? Are we after so
long a separation reunited? Are our
days of poverty ended? Is this earth
or heaven descended to earth?"
On Christmas morning Mrs. Kauf
man found on her plate not only a
deed to her house, but a check for the
rest of her dowry that her husband
had sunk in business with interest, as
for Carl, who was devoted to music, he
found on uis plate a check for a sum
that would enable him to buy the best
violin that could be found in Germany.
The day was passed by Kaufman re
counting liii adventures in America
and by the mother and son telling him
the expedients to which they had re
sorted to keep from starving. It had
only been during^the past year or two
that Carl ty his music had been ena
bled to keeo them iu any comfort
The Kaufman family lived together
for many years in the home to which
they had £one the day after the wed
ding and had returned on Christmas.
The father seemed perfectly content to
smoke his pipe there, having no desire
to return to the land where he had
erdured so much, but had at last made
bis fortune. As for Carl, he became a
noted violinist and has made several
concert tours in America.
Start the
New Year
With A
"KODAK"
When you see a choice lot oP
photographs which have been col
lected by some friend, does it
not create a desire on your part to
do likewise?
You can take all the pictures you
want with a "kodak", and the "Ko
dak" way is the only way.
Whether it be school boy or
school girl or the most sedate of
"grown-ups" there's always a fas
cination in picture taking and it's so
simple by the Kodak system that
anybody can take good pictures from
tile start.
KODAKS, $8.C0 and Up.
BROWNIE j } $1.00 to
CAMERAS ( , K-torie,: [$12.00
Keller Bros. Skagway Agents
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Mrs. Orlott King :: Proprietor
..RA"W FITRJS„
Ship all your Raw Furs. Whalebone, Ivory, Ginseng.
Golden Seal Root, etc. to the
Moose Bay Fur & Trading Co.
TACOMA, WASH.
And receive the highest prices paid. Special personal attention
is giveu to our sales and thorough satisfaction is guaranteed.
Writs us for price list and any further information.
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—: WE PAY
HIGH - PRICES
FOR FINE FURS
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THE SKAGWAY
Pioneer Dairy
H. F. SEEMAN, Prop.
'THE SMITM MILK MHCH"
The largest and best con
ducted dairy In Alaska.
Daily Bhipments of pure
milk and cream to all points
on White Pass & Yukon
Route.
You make a mistake if
you do not stop at
THE
Puilen House
Electric Lights
Rooms Single or en Suite
Baths on each floor
Famous for its Home Cooking,
M:'k, Cream, Cottage Cheese and
Buttermilk from our own da'^v, I
Fresh Eggs, etc
Rates $2.50 Per Day and Up J
Well Lighted, Large Sample
Rooms for Traveling Men.
H. S. PULLEN, Prop.
Skagway. Alaska
juaeai. Steamship Co.
U. 8. MAIL STEAMER
Georgia
Juneau-Sitka Route
Leaves Juneau for Hoonah, Gyp
sum, Tenakee, Killisnoo and Slt
a Nov. 30, Dec. 6, 12, 18, 24, 30
lan. 5, 11, 17, 23, 29. Feb. 4,
10, 16, 22, 28. Mar. 6, 12, 18,
4, 30. i
Juneau-Skagway Route
Leaves Juneau for Pearl Harbor,
Eagle River, Yankee Cove, Comet,
Sentinel Light Station, Eldred
Rock Light Station, Haines and
""kagway Nov. 28, Dec. 4, 16, 16,
2, 28. Jan. 3, 9, 15, 21, 27. Feb.
8, 14, 20 26. March 4, 10, 16,
'2, 28. i
WILLIS E. NO WELL. Manager.